Those Who Come After by Elisabeth Holdsworth

Picador
9781405040501

Born in the Netherlands just after World War II, Elisabeth Holdsworth spent her early life in the south-western province of Zeeland before migrating to Australia with her parents in 1959. She completed her education in Melbourne. Holdsworth is an essayist, poet, and writer of short stories and reviews, and has been published in Best Australian Essays, Heat, Southerly, Island, The Monthly, Mattoid and Transnational. She won the inaugural ABR/Calibre prize for her essay An die Nachgeborenen: For Those Who Come After, which was published in the February 2007 issue of Australian Book Review and later broadcast on ABC radio. Elisabeth lives with her husband in Goulburn, NSW.

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