Education
Kerryn Goldsworthy has a Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Adelaide.
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Kerryn Goldsworthy
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Career
She taught at the University of Melbourne from 1981 to 1997 as a tutor and lecturer and has also worked briefly at Deakin, Flinders and Adelaide Universities, and at the University of Klagenfurt, in Austria. She was the editor of the Australian Book Review (May 1986 to December 1987), decades later she claimed that the experience involved her "learning more about human nature in those two years than in either the preceding thirty-three or the following nineteen."
In 1997, Kerryn Goldsworthy returned to Adelaide and turned to freelance writing. She also writes for a number of weblogs.
Achievements
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She was a judge of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award for a year, until she resigned, along with two other judges, over a charter that changed the decision-making powers of the judges. She once described herself as "an old fashioned feminist." In 2013 Goldsworthy was awarded the Pascall Prize "Australian Critic of the Year", Australia"s major national award for criticism.
Politics
Goldsworthy"s political views are left-wing.
Membership
Goldsworthy also served as a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and has also been the recipient of Australia Council grants allocated from its Literature Fund.
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Nationality
Australia