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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Cloudflare Ray ID: 6595aa74bc551665 • Your IP : 188.246.226.140 • Performance & security by Cloudflare. Peter Goldsworthy. Peter Goldsworthy grew up in various Australian country towns, finishing his schooling in Darwin. After graduating in medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1974, he worked for many years in alcohol and drug rehabiiltation. Since then, he has divided his time equally between writing and general practice. He has won major literary awards across a range of genres: poetry, short story, the novel, in opera, and most recently in theatre. His novels have sold over 400,000 copies in Australia alone, have been translated into many European and Asian languages; Three Dog Night , won the FAW Christina Stead Award'; in 2003 his first novel Maestro was voted by members of the Australian Society of Authors one of the Top 40 Australian books of all time. Maestro is now available in the Angus&Robertson Australian Classics series, and his 1995 novel Wish in the Text Classics series. He wrote the libretti for the Richard Mills operas Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Batavia , the latter winning Mills and Goldsworthy the 2002 Robert Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, and a Green Room Award for Special Creative Achievement. Maestro , Three Dog Night , Wish , Honk If You Are Jesus , and the short story The Kiss have been adapted for the stage. Honk won the 2006 Ruby Award for Best New Work. The short film of The Kiss , adapted and directed by Ashlee Page, won both the 2010 Dendy and AFI awards for best short feature, and an AFI award for Best Cinematography. It also won the Australian Teachers of Media Award for best short film. Paperchain Bookchat. It’s the year 1964, and 14-year-old know-it-all Robbie Burns is about to discover he still has a lot to learn. The world is changing fast, although the news has yet to reach the small South Australian town of Penola. There, Robbie leads an idyllic life of rabbiting, backyard science experiments, and hooligan scrapes with his friend Billy. Penola is oblivious even to its minor celebrity as the birthplace of the poet John Shaw Neilson, but poetry means the world to Robbie’s new teacher from the city, the stylish Miss Peach, a sixties sophisticate with stirrup pants, Kool cigarettes and a Vespa scooter. Miss Peach’s artistic yearnings and modern ways prove too much for the good people of Penola, but they fire Robbie’s precocious imagination and burgeoning sexuality, until what begins as a schoolboy fantasy has terrible, real consequences. Author: Peter Goldsworthy Publisher: Penguin Books Date Published: 27/10/2008 Language: English. Peter Goldsworthy. Peter Goldsworthy. Courtesy Book Town Australia . Peter Goldsworthy AM (born 12 October 1951) is an Australian poet, prose writer, and medical practitioner. He has won awards for his short stories, poetry, novels, and opera libretti. Goldsworthy has been described (in A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry ) as "one of the most skilled and satisfying poets in Australia". [1] Contents. Life [ edit | edit source ] Goldsworthy was born in Minlaton, South Australia, and grew up in various Australian country towns, finishing his schooling in Darwin in the Northern Territory. [2] He graduated in medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1974, and worked in alcohol and drug rehabilitation for several years, but, with his poetry being published in Westerly and the Friendly Street Poetry Reader , he started dividing his working time equally between general practice and writing. [3] Goldsworthy's eldest daughter Anna is a successful concert pianist and also an accomplished writer. They recently worked together on a stage adaptation of Goldsworthy's novel Maestro . Writing [ edit | edit source ] Goldsworthy's novels have sold over four hundred thousand copies in Australia alone, and, with his poetry and short stories, have been translated into many European and Asian languages. [4] He has won major literary prizes across most genres: for poetry, the short story, the novel, plays and opera. Novels [ edit | edit source ] His first novel Maestro was reissued as part of the Angus & Robertson Australian Classics series, and was voted one of the Top 40 Australian books of all time by members of the Australian Society of Authors. [5] Poetry and short stories [ edit | edit source ] His New Selected Poems were published in Australia and the UK in 2001; and his Collected Stories appeared in Australia in 2004. The Poetry Archive describes his poetry as follows: "There's a pressing sense of mortality in his work and a desire to ask the big questions, even as he satirises them. Drawn to the discipline of science, Goldsworthy's poems are full of the language of the laboratory —matter, evidence, elements, chemicals— the stuff we are made of, but at the same time frustrated by these limitations into asking what else we might be. He's interested in 'The Dark Side of the Head', the things we can only know in flashes, like glimpsing a skink, but he also retains a rationalist's scepticism of the ecstatic – that "thoughtlessly exquisite" evening sky in 'Sunset' won't fool him into rapture". [1] The Australian expatriate writer, Clive James, comments that Goldsworthy's poetry is often seen as a sideline, but argues that it is "at the centre of his achievement". James writes: "His precise wit operates on every level, from the sonic (a concealed dove really does say hidden here, hidden here) to the conceptual (the human body really is packed tight like an attempt on the record of filling a Mini). The general impression is of a fastidious insistence that the particular comes first, and any general comment that follows had better be particular too." [6] Libretti [ edit | edit source ] Goldsworthy also writes opera libretti. He wrote the libretti for the Richard Mills operas, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Batavia , [7] the latter winning Mills and Goldsworthy the 2002 Robert Helpmann Award for Best Opera and Best New Australian Work. The Sydney premiere at the Sydney Opera House on 19 August 2006 was conducted by the composer and attended by the librettist. Film writing [ edit | edit source ] Goldsworthy wrote or co-wrote the script to several films: [8] Ebbtide (1994) [9] Passion (1999) [10] Adaptations of his works [ edit | edit source ] His novels Wish , Honk If You Are Jesus , and Three Dog Night have been adapted for the stage. Honk , was premiered by the State Theatre of South Australia in its 2006 season. It won the 2006 Ruby Award for Best New Work, and the 2006 Advertiser Oscart Award for Best Play. In 2009 Honk If You Are Jesus was adapted as a radio play by Mike Ladd for ABC Radio National and was broadcast by the BBC World Service. The novella "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam" has also been adapted as a radio-play by Mike Ladd for the ABC. [11] Goldsworthy's poetry has been set to music by leading Australian composers including Graeme Koehne, Richard Mills, and Matthew Hindson. In 2008 Ashlee Page worked on the short film The Kiss adapted from the short story of the same name from the collection The List of All Answers . [12] Recognition [ edit | edit source ] 1979: Western Australian Sesquicentenary Literary Prize for the short-story Memoirs of a small 'm' marxist. 1982: Commonwealth Poetry Prize Readings from Ecclesiastes 1982: FAW Anne Elder Poetry Award, joint winner for Readings from Ecclesiastes 1982: South Australian Premier's Award, for Readings from Ecclesiastes 1984: Government Biennial Literature Prize (South Australia), for Readings from Ecclesiastes 1988: Australian Bicentennial Literary Prize for Poetry 1991: NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize, shortlisted for This Goes with That 1998: ABC / ABA Bicentennial Literary Award, Poetry Australia Literary Award 2002: Robert Helpmann Award for Best Opera and Best New Australian Work for Batavia [13] 2002: Green Room Award for Special Creative Achievement for Batavia 2003: Colin Roderick Award, shortlisted for Three Dog Night 2004: Miles Franklin Award. Shortlisted for Three Dog Night 2004: FAW Christina Stead Award for Three Dog Night 2004: The Courier-Mail Book of the Year . Shortlisted for Three Dog Night 2004: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. Shortlisted for Three Dog Night 2004: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Shortlisted for Three Dog Night 2005: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for Three Dog Night 2009: Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Shortlisted for Everything I Knew 2010: Order of Australia. (AM) Citation: "For service to literature as an author and poet, through arts administration, and to the community." Publications [ edit | edit source ] Poetry [ edit | edit source ] Readings from Ecclesiastes: Poems . Sydney & London: Angus & Robertson, 1982. This Goes with This . Crows Nest, NSW: ABC Books, 1988. This Goes with That: Selected Poems 1970–1990 . North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1991. After the Ball . Canberra, ACT: National Library of Australia, 1992.
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