User:Oldsilenus/sandbox/Goldsworthy Biography

Serbia
Vesna Goldsworthy wrote poetry since her youth. They were published in literary magazines and anthologies throughout the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties. They won a number of prizes in the former Yugoslavia In 1984 she read a sonnet at a soccer stadium in front of 30,000 people. During the summer of 1984 she attended the Karl Marx Institute of the University of Sofia in order to research Byzantine prayers for her college dissertation and to study Bulgarian.

England
In 1986 Goldsworthy moved to England. After working for two publishing houses, she spent ten years broadcasting and producing for the BBC World Service in her native Serbian, and in English on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4. She received a M.A. in Modern English Literature in 1992 and a Ph.D. in 1996. Vesna Goldsworthy then became a faculy member of East Anglia University where she continues as Professor Emeritus in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing. In 2009 Goldsworthy joined the International Dublin Literary Award panel of judges. In 2017 she joined the faculty of the University of Exeter where she is currently a Professor of Creative Writing. Goldsworthy is a member of the Folio-Academy.

Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Goldsworthy read her memoir Chernobyl Strawberries on the BBC. It was listed in the Radio Choice list of The Guardian. Gorsky, her first novel, remained on the London Times Best Seller list for five months. Gorsky  was also listed as a NY Times Editors Choice. The novel Iron Curtain was listed among the Financial Times best summer books of 2022, the New Yorker: Best books We've Read This Year (2023), and The Christian Science Monitor Ten Best Books of February 2023.

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