Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Goldsworthy combines writing with the practice of medicine. He has won literary awards across a range of genres, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, and, together with composer Richard Mills, the inaugural Helpmann Award for Best New Work for the opera Batavia. His 1995 novel Wish has been reissued in the Text Classics series, his 1988 novel Maestro as an Angus & Robertson Australian Classic, and Honk If you Are Jesus last year in the Untapped Heritage series. His novels have been widely translated, and adapted for the stage, as have his short stories. He has also written opera libretti for the composers Luke Styles and Graeme Koehne. Online, his poetry can be read and heard at The Poetry Archive, and read at The Poetry Foundation.
His most recent book is The Cancer Finishing School, published by Penguin Viking.
Peter will be appearing at the following events:
ADAPT OR PERISH Peter Goldsworthy and Pip Williams in conversation with Sarah Macdonald