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Goldie Goldbloom
Goldie Goldbloom’s short fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly and Narrative and won the Jerusalem Post International Fiction Prize. Her stories have been translated into over ten languages, and are often reprinted and anthologised. The USA version of this novel; Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders, won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’(AWP) Novel Award in 2008 and as a result will be published in the USA in early 2010. Her non-fiction story ‘You Lose These’ is forthcoming in a Random House anthology that won the pre-publication Hadassah Brandeis Award.
She grew up in Western Australia and, even though she lives in Chicago with her eight children, has never given up her Australian citizenship.
Awards
- Jerusalem Post International Fiction Prize
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs’(AWP) Novel Award, (2008)
- Hadassah Brandeis Award
Books available from Fremantle Press
- The Paperbark Shoe 2010
- The Paperbark Shoe eBook 2009
Website
From the Catalogue
1.2.3. YA
Fremantle press and the Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre invite you to join us for an evening with first time novelist Deb Fitzpatrick, second time novelist A.J. Betts and third time novelist Kate McCaffrey.
Chaired by Lynne Cahill, The West Australian, Newspapers in Education.
When: 6.30pm, Tuesday 7 September 2010
Where: Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre, Old Prison Hospital, Cnr Knutsford and Hampton Road, Fremantle, (Parry St carpark)
RSVP:08 9430 6331 or admin@fremantlepress.com.au

