Peter Goldsworthy
- January 10, 2024
- Writer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Peter Goldsworthy |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Date Of Birth | Oct 12, 1951(1951-10-12) |
| Age | 73 |
| Birthplace | Minlaton |
| Country | Australia |
| Birth City | South Australia |
| Horoscope | Libra |
Peter Goldsworthy Biography
| Name | Peter Goldsworthy |
| Birthday | Oct 12 |
| Birth Year | 1951 |
| Place Of Birth | Minlaton |
| Home Town | South Australia |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Libra |
| Siblings | Jeffrey Goldsworthy |
| Children(s) | Anna Goldsworthy |
Peter Goldsworthy is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on October 12, 1951 in Minlaton, South Australia, Australia. Peter David Goldsworthy AM (born 12 October 1951) is an Australian physician and writer. He has received prizes for his poetry, short stories novel, novels and opera libretti.
Goldsworthy has written five collection of short stories, which included The List of All Answers: Collected Stories, in 2004. The most recent collectionof short stories, Gravel is short-listed in The ASAL Gold Medal. His works have been widely published in anthologies.
His novels Maestro, Wish, Honk If You Are Jesus, Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam and Three Dog Night have been adapted for the stage. Honk, was premiered by the State Theatre of South Australia in its 2006 season. It won the 2006 Ruby Award for Best New Work, and the 2006 Advertiser Oscart Award for Best Play.
Goldsworthy also writes opera libretti. He wrote the libretto for the Richard Mills operas, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Batavia, the latter winning Mills and Goldsworthy the 2002 Helpmann Award for Best Opera and Best New Australian Work. The premiere at the Sydney Opera House on 19 August 2006 was conducted by the composer and attended by the librettist. He wrote the chamber opera, The ringtone cycle : for soprano, violin, cello, piano, and iPhone with composer Graeme Koehne. Ned Kelly, a new opera written with composer Luke Styles, will be premiered by lost & found opera company at the Perth Festival in 2019.
He is known for his New Selected Poems were published in Australia and in the UK in 2001. In 2004, His Collected Stories appeared in Australia in 2004.
Peter Goldsworthy Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Peter Goldsworthy is one of the richest Writer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Goldsworthy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Goldsworthy was born in Minlaton, South Australia, and was raised in several Australian rural towns before completing his education at Darwin located in the Northern Territory. He received his medical degree in 1974 from Adelaide’s University of Adelaide in 1974 and then worked in the field of rehabilitation for alcohol and drugs for a few years. However when his poems were released through Westerly along with The Friendly Street Poetry Reader, Goldsworthy began dividing his work time between writing and general practice.
The first novel of his Maestro was reissued as a part of Angus & Robertson Australian Classics series. It was also named among the Top 40 Australian books of all time by the members of the Australian Society of Authors. The novel he wrote in 1995 Wish was recently reissued as part of the Text Publishing Text Classics series.
Three Dog Night won the 2004 FAW Christina Stead Award, and was long-listed for the Dublin/IMPAC prize. His first novel for ten years, Minotaur, was published in 2019.
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Humphrey Bower’s award-winning adaptation of Wish for his company, Night Train, had subsequent seasons with the Perth Theatre Company, and in Canada with Edmonton’s Northern Lights. Petra Kalive’s adaptation of Three Dog Night was premiered at fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne, and also performed in the Adelaide Festival Centre Space.
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