Goldie Goldbloom Explained

Goldie Goldbloom (born 1964) is an Australian Hasidic novelist, essayist and short story writer. She is an LGBT activist and a former board member of Eshel.

Early life and education

Goldbloom was born in Perth, Western Australia. She is a graduate of theological seminaries in Australia and the United States, and earned an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. She is a member of the Lubavitch hasidic community.[1] Goldbloom is the mother of eight children. Her grandmother was the West Australian writer Dorrit Hunt, who was made a Life Member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in 1988.[2]

Career

Goldbloom began writing fiction seriously in her forties, after the birth of her eight children, and in 2011, received the Simon Blattner Fellowship in Creative Writing and World Literature from Northwestern University, following the publication of her novel, The Paperbark Shoe.[3] She then began teaching at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.Goldbloom's work has been published in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Le Monde and StoryQuarterly, among other places. In 2015, her story "The Pilgrim's Way" was included in Black Inc Book's collection The Best Australian Short Stories 2015, edited by Amanda Lohrey.[4] She was an early contributor to G-dcast,[5] and has written for NPR. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been selected for Keep Your Wives Away From Them (Golden Crown Literary Award, 2011), Inspired Journeys and over a dozen other anthologies.

Her novel The Paperbark Shoe won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Fiction in 2008[6] and was placed on the National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" list in 2018.[7] The novel won the Literary Novel of the Year from the ForeWord Magazine (Independent Publishers) in 2011. Goldie received a Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award in 2010.[8] In 2011, Goldbloom was the Chicago Reader’s Jewish Writer of the Year.

In 2013, she spoke at the International Forum on the Novel, run by Villa Gillet in Lyon, France, on the subject of "Portraits and Faces: Appearance and Disfigurement".[9] [10] Later the same year, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing.[11] [12] [13]

Her novel, Gwen, was a finalist for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel,[14] the Small Press Network's Most Underrated Book Award,[15] and the Australian Literary Society's Gold Medal in 2018.[16] [17]

Goldbloom received a Brown Foundation Fellowship at Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France, in 2014 and won Hunger Mountains National Nonfiction Award in the same year. In 2016, the City of Chicago awarded her an Individual Artist Grant and in 2017, Yaddo and Ragdale selected her for artist's residencies.

Her third novel, On Division,[18] was awarded the Association of Jewish Libraries' Book of the Year prize for 2020.[19] It was also chosen as the San Francisco One Bay One Book selection for 2019–20[20] [21] and the 2020 Prix des Libraires. The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Wingate Prize.

Bibliography

Awards and honors

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ludwig . Jerome . 2011-04-07 . Goldie Goldbloom: Paperbark Writer . 2023-06-08 . . en-US.
  2. Web site: Honorary Life Members . https://web.archive.org/web/20030819121731/http://members.iinet.net.au/~fawwa/lifemembers.htm . Aug 19, 2003 . 2021-06-08 . Fellowship of Australian Writers.
  3. Web site: 2018-05-30. Golda Goldbloom. 2020-09-21. NEA. en. 4 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181204102035/https://www.arts.gov/nea-literature-fellowships/golda-goldbloom. dead.
  4. Book: The Best Australian Stories 2015 . 2015-06-26 . . Lohrey . Amanda . Amanda Lohrey . en . 8 June 2023.
  5. Web site: VIDEO: Weekly Torah Portion: A Wife for Isaac . https://web.archive.org/web/20190327161735/https://www.israel365.com/2015/11/video-weekly-torah-portion-a-wife-for-isaac/ . 27 March 2019 . 8 June 2023 . Israel365.
  6. Web site: March 1, 2011 . Goldie Goldbloom Wins 2011 GLCA New Writers Award . 2023-06-08 . . en.
  7. Web site: 2018-10-22 . #NEABigRead Library Expands with Six New Additions . 2023-06-08 . . en.
  8. Web site: Winners of the GLCA New Writers Award . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305042841/http://glca.org/images/NWA_List_of_Winners_70-Current%201-16-13.pdf . Mar 5, 2016 . 13 December 2017 . Great Lakes College Association.
  9. Web site: Goldbloom . Goldie . 2013-07-18 . Goldie Goldbloom writes from Lyon . 2023-06-08 . . en-AU.
  10. Web site: May 30, 2013 . Portraits and Faces: Appearance and Disfigurement - VILLA-GILLET // AIR // LES ASSISES INTERNATIONALES DU ROMAN 2012 . 2023-06-08 . Villa Gillet.
  11. Web site: National Endowment for the Arts. Fellowship in Creative Writing. Dec 11, 2013.
  12. Web site: Faculty of the Master of Arts in Writing Northwestern University School of Professional Studie: School of Professional Studies Northwestern University. 2020-10-06. sps.northwestern.edu. en-us.
  13. Web site: Meet the Creative Writing Fellows: Golda Goldbloom . 2023-06-08 . . en.
  14. Web site: Croft . Tehani . 2018-02-14 . 2017 Aurealis Awards shortlist announcement . 2023-06-08 . . en.
  15. Web site: Staff . 2018-10-19 . Most Underrated Book Award 2018 shortlist announced . 2023-06-08 . . en-AU.
  16. Web site: 20 Mar 2018 . The ALS Gold Medal longlist 2018 . 2023-06-08 . Readings Books . en.
  17. Web site: 21 March 2018 . ALS Gold Medal 2018 longlist announced . 2023-06-09 . . en-AU.
  18. Book: Goldbloom, Goldie. On division. 17 September 2019. 978-0-374-17531-3. First. New York. 1080553849.
  19. Web site: AJL's 2020 Jewish Fiction Award. 2020-09-21. jewishlibraries.org. 27 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200127054201/https://jewishlibraries.org/blog/2020FictionAwd. dead.
  20. News: Herrick . Jenni . 2019-11-05 . Novelist Goldie Goldbloom Explores Unbearable Secrets in 'On Division' . en-us . . 2020-10-06.
  21. Web site: Paull . Laura . 2019-09-06 . This year's One Bay One Book pick is novel by Australian Hasidic author . 2023-06-09 . . en-US.
  22. Web site: The Paperbark Shoe Goldie Goldbloom Macmillan . us.macmillan.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111228132002/http://us.macmillan.com/thepaperbarkshoe/GoldieGoldbloom . 2011-12-28.
  23. Web site: You Lose These + other stories by Goldie Goldbloom . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140308182720/http://fremantlepress.com.au/books/1248 . 2014-03-08 . 2013-12-12 . Fremantle Press.
  24. Web site: Gwen . 2023-06-09 . Fremantle Press . en-AU.
  25. Web site: On Division. 2021-04-29.
  26. Web site: Feb 2010 . Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders by Goldie Goldbloom . 2023-06-08 . FictionDB . en.
  27. Web site: 2018-10-22 . #NEABigRead Library Expands with Six New Additions . 2023-06-09 . . en.

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