My Favourite author: PETER GOLDSWORTHY

"Peter Goldsworthy was born in Minlaton, South Australia, grew up in vaiious country towns, and completed his schooling in Darwin. He graduated in medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1974 and has since diveded his time equally between writing and medicine. His novels have sold over a quarter of a million copies in Australia alone and have been translated into several European and Asian languages, as have his short stories and poetry. He has won numberous awards for his writing, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, an Australian Bicentennial Literary Award, and jointly composer  Richard Mills, the 2002 Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work for the opera Batavia."

Futher info: www.petergoldsworthy.com
The first time I had ever come across his work was in only in Yr11. Mrs Smith, our English teacher, wanted us to read Maestro, which turned out to  be the best novel I have ever read in my life. Every image was vividly descibed. Every stir of emotion was effectively conveyed. We were moved to tears. We shared the highs and lows--joy and sadness, the success and failure, the innocence of childhood and the disatisfaction of medicocrity, the sympathy-- the mood throughout the entire novel. It was an excellent work with a unique style. No one can do better.

His most recent novel, Three Dog Night(2003), helped me to look beyond my disappointment in my performance in the English HSC exam. It was a novel with a deep insight into human relationships. There were times of joy and horror-the book was a greate accomplishment. An all enveloping experience in reading it.

His works:

Poetry
Readings From Ecclesiastes
This Goes With This
This Goes With That: Selected Poems, 1970-1990
If, Then
New Selected Poems

Short Fiction
Archipelagoes
Zooing
Bleak Rooms
Little Deaths

Novels
Maetro
Magpie (with Brian Matthews)
Honk if You Are Jesus
Wish
Keep it Simple, Stupid
Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam
Three Dog Nights

Libretti
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Batavia

Non Fiction
Navel Gazing
The above link contains an extract of chapter one of Three Dog Nights. (Have a look at it IT"S EXCELLENT)
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