Australian writer and medical practitioner. Peter Goldsworthy grew up in various Australian country towns, finishing his schooling in Darwin. After graduating in medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1974 he worked for several years in alcohol and drug rehabilitation, but since then has divided his working time between general practice and writing. He has won major literary awards across a range of genres: poetry, short story, novels, theatre, and opera libretti. Goldsworthy's novels have sold over 400 000 copies in Australia alone, and have been translated into European and Asian languages. His novels have three times been shortlisted for the NSW Christina Stead Fiction Prize, and twice for the Miles Franklin Award. Three Dog Night won the 2004 FAW Christina Stead Award, and was longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC prize. In 2003, his first novel, Maestro, was voted by members of the Australian Society of Authors as one of the Top 40 Australian books of all time. Five of his novels have been adapted for stage and screen. Everything I Knew, published in 2008, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Fiction Prize. A collection of short stories, Gravel, was published in 2010. NOVELS Maestro (1989) Magpie (1992) Honk If You are Jesus (1992) Wish (1995) Keep it Simple, Stupid (1996) Three Dog Night (2003) Everything I Knew (2008) The Kiss (2012) Minotaur (2019) NOVELLA Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam: a novella with extensive reading notes (1993) SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS Archipelagoes (1982) Zooing (1986) Bleak Rooms (1988) Little Deaths (1993) One of My Best Friends (1994) The List of All Answers: collected stories (2004) Gravel (2010) POETRY COLLECTIONS Readings from Ecclesiastes, (1982) This Goes with That: Selected Poems 1970–1990, (1991) After the Ball, (1992) If, Then: Poems and Songs, (1996) New Selected Poems (2001) Tattered Joys (2002) The Rise of the Machines and Other Love Poems (2015) Anatomy of a Metaphor (2017) ESSAYS Navel Gazing: essays, half-truths, and mystery flights (1998)
