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Profile
Kate De Goldi, who has also written as Kate Flannery, is the author of both
adult and young adult fiction, including three outstanding novels in the young
adult genre. De Goldi’s work has won several awards and she appears regularly
in the media talking about children’s books.
Selected published works
Like You, Really, 1994; Sanctuary, 1996, winner, senior fiction
category, 1997 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards; Love, Charlie
Mike, 1997; Closed, Stranger, 2000; Clubs: A Lolly
Leopold Story, 2004, Book of the Year New Zealand Post Children’s Book
Awards 2005; Billy: A Lolly Leopold Story, 2006 and The 10pm Question in 2008.
Publishers
Trapeze
www.lollyleopold.com
Longacre Press
www.longacre.co.nz
Biography
Kate De Goldi was born in Christchurch in 1959. She has won the American
Express and the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Awards for her short stories, but
it is as a writer in the young adult genre that she has become best known.
Her books take young people, their lives and problems seriously, and do not
flinch from portraying their realities.
Her first young adult novel, Sanctuary, published in New Zealand and
Australia in 1996, is the story of a teenage girl struggling to come to grips
with her past. Sanctuary won the 1997 New Zealand Post Children’s
Book Award for senior fiction. De Goldi’s third young adult novel,
Closed, Stranger, was controversial for its rather startling storylines
– two young people falling in love, and the unusual relationships which
can develop out of adoption.
De Goldi is a prominent figure in New Zealand literary circles. She is a frequent
speaker at writers’ festivals and she tours as a writer and creative writing
tutor in schools. She has presented the television programme, Bookends,
and has a regular children’s book review slot on Radio New Zealand. De
Goldi also tutors the children’s writing and young adult novel workshops
at the Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.
Kate De Goldi was awarded an Arts Foundation Laureate Award in 2001.
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