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
editGoldbloom 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
editGoldbloom 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[3] 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 Mountain's 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
edit- The Paperbark Shoe (2009, Picador; republished 2010, New Issues Poetry & Prose)[22]
- You Lose These and other stories (2011, Fremantle Press)[23]
- Gwen (2017, Fremantle Press)[24]
- On Division (2019, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)[25]
Awards and honors
edit- (1981) Jerusalem Post International Fiction Prize
- (2008) AWP Novel Award, The Paperbark Shoe[6]
- (2011) Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, The Paperbark Shoe[8]
- (2011) IndieFab Novel of the Year, The Paperbark Shoe[26]
- (2014) Hunger Mountain Nonfiction Award, "The Chevra"
- (2014) National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[13]
- (2015) Black Inc Best Australian Short Story, "The Pilgrim's Way"[4]
- (2018) Small Press Network Most Underrated Book Award (shortlist), Gwen[15]
- (2018) Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel (shortlist), Gwen[14]
- (2018) ALS Gold Medal (longlist),Gwen[16][17]
- (2018) National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read" list, The Paperbark Shoe[27]
- (2019) San Francisco One Bay One Book selection, 2019–2020, On Division[21][20]
- (2020) Association of Jewish Libraries Book of the Year, On Division[19]
- (2021) Wingate Prize (Shortlist), On Division
- (2021) Laureat du Prix des Libraires, On Division
References
edit- ^ Ludwig, Jerome (7 April 2011). "Goldie Goldbloom: Paperbark Writer". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ "Honorary Life Members". Fellowship of Australian Writers. Archived from the original on 19 August 2003. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Golda Goldbloom". NEA. 30 May 2018. Archived from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- ^ a b Lohrey, Amanda, ed. (26 June 2015). The Best Australian Stories 2015. Black Inc Books. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ "VIDEO: Weekly Torah Portion: A Wife for Isaac". Israel365. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Goldie Goldbloom Wins 2011 GLCA New Writers Award". Association of Writers & Writing Programs. 1 March 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ "#NEABigRead Library Expands with Six New Additions". National Endowment for the Arts. 22 October 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Winners of the GLCA New Writers Award" (PDF). Great Lakes College Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
- ^ Goldbloom, Goldie (18 July 2013). "Goldie Goldbloom writes from Lyon". Fremantle Press. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ "Portraits and Faces: Appearance and Disfigurement - VILLA-GILLET // AIR // LES ASSISES INTERNATIONALES DU ROMAN 2012". Villa Gillet. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ National Endowment for the Arts. "Fellowship in Creative Writing" (PDF). Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ "Faculty of the Master of Arts in Writing | Northwestern University School of Professional Studie: School of Professional Studies | Northwestern University". sps.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ a b "Meet the Creative Writing Fellows: Golda Goldbloom". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ a b Croft, Tehani (14 February 2018). "2017 Aurealis Awards shortlist announcement". Aurealis Awards. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ a b Staff (19 October 2018). "Most Underrated Book Award 2018 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ a b "The ALS Gold Medal longlist 2018". Readings Books. 20 March 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ a b "ALS Gold Medal 2018 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 21 March 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
- ^ Goldbloom, Goldie (17 September 2019). On division (First ed.). New York. ISBN 978-0-374-17531-3. OCLC 1080553849.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b "AJL's 2020 Jewish Fiction Award". jewishlibraries.org. Archived from the original on 27 January 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- ^ a b Herrick, Jenni (5 November 2019). "Novelist Goldie Goldbloom Explores Unbearable Secrets in 'On Division'". The Shepherd Express. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ a b Paull, Laura (6 September 2019). "This year's One Bay One Book pick is novel by Australian Hasidic author". J. The Jewish News of Northern California. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
- ^ "The Paperbark Shoe | Goldie Goldbloom | Macmillan". us.macmillan.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2011.
- ^ "You Lose These + other stories by Goldie Goldbloom". Fremantle Press. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
- ^ "Gwen". Fremantle Press. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
- ^ "On Division". Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- ^ "Toads' Museum of Freaks and Wonders by Goldie Goldbloom". FictionDB. February 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ "#NEABigRead Library Expands with Six New Additions". National Endowment for the Arts. 22 October 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
External links
edit- Official website
- Washington Post Review of The Paperbark Shoe (2011) [1].
- Chicago Tribune Interview with Goldie Goldbloom (2011) http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-0430-goldie-goldbloom-20110429,0,474752.story
- ABC Radio Australia Interview with Goldbloom (2017) http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/gwen:-a-fictional-biography-of-gwen-john/8486964
- Love Your Neighbor: An Interview with Goldie Goldbloom at the Wayback Machine (archived August 20, 2023)
- NEA Interview with Goldie Goldbloom (2018) https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2018/nea-big-read-author-goldie-goldbloom-bullying-writing-bathtub-and-books
- The Economist interview (2019) https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/09/26/the-strictures-and-allure-of-ultra-orthodox-life