Kerryn Goldsworthy

Kerryn Goldsworthy is a freelance writer and critic who lectured in literature at the University of Melbourne for seventeen years and has written extensively about Australian fiction. Her most recent book, Adelaide (2011), was shortlisted for the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and she won the 2013 Pascall Prize for Criticism.

Works By Kerryn Goldsworthy

The Dancer From the Dance: Between a Wolf and a Dog
The novel’s title is the translation of the French expression l’heure entre chien et loup, ‘the hour between dog and wolf’. It refers to twilight, the dusky hour when you can no longer see clearly and might easily mistake a dog for a wolf or vice
16 May. 2017
Inhabiting Spirits: The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton
‘Gorton’s way of seeing the world and of naming its parts is the quality that sets her debut novel apart from the mass of fiction currently being published in Australia… Most contemporary novels favour substance a long way over style, which can le...
25 Sept. 2015
Rolling downhill: What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix
Written in the first person and the present tense, What Days Are For has a diary-like tone and structure, covering the twelve hospitalised days immediately following what Dessaix calls ‘the emergency’.
19 Mar. 2015
A living landscape: A Country in Mind by Saskia Beudel
Throughout the book, Beudel uses a technique that approaches – and seems to be trying, humbly, to learn from – Aboriginal ways of seeing country, of the dynamic interrelatedness of people, animals, plants and the land itself, to write her own stor...
9 Sept. 2014
A sentence is a half-formed thing
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is a piece of high modernism a century on, recognisable in its stream-of-consciousness ways as using a version of the techniques practised by James Joyce, and also by Virginia Woolf, who might have approved its style
27 May. 2014
The unseemly splatter
Australia’s first female Prime Minister is the figure at the centre of this pile of books, and they were all produced during the last few months of her Prime Ministership. They came out in quick succession... all of them had gone to press before t...
22 Oct. 2013
What we talk about when we talk about Australian literature
The rhetoric of the publicity campaign for the Classics series is grounded in blame and indignation about the alleged ‘neglect’ of Australian literature by publishers, editors, journalists and, most of all, academics...
28 Jan. 2013

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Kerryn Goldsworthy

Works By Kerryn Goldsworthy

The Dancer From the Dance: Between a Wolf and a Dog

Inhabiting Spirits: The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton

Rolling downhill: What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix

A living landscape: A Country in Mind by Saskia Beudel

A sentence is a half-formed thing

The unseemly splatter

What we talk about when we talk about Australian literature