Linda Aronson

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Linda Jane Aronson (born March 20, 1950 in London ) is a British writer.

Life

Aronson grew up in Essex and won a scholarship to Trinity College of Music in London at the age of twelve . She later studied in Ireland at the University of Ulster and participated in the student protests of her time. She moved to Sydney with her husband, whom she had met in Oxford . The couple has two children.

reception

Linda Aronson writes pieces for the stage, film, television and radio and has won numerous awards. Her first novel Kelp , which was first published in 1997 and won the Sanderson Award, was published in Germany under the title Ein Genie wie Emily . He describes with a lot of humor the problems that fourteen-year-old Emily Tate has with her family and especially with the seaweed factory that grandfather left behind. The second novel, Rude Health , was nominated for the NSW Premier's Literary Award. The next volume is called Plain Rude .

Linda Aronson's most famous play, for which she also wrote the music, is called Dinkum Assorted . Since it premiered at the Sydney Opera House in 1988, it has been a regular feature on theater schedules. Her piece Reginka's Lesson won the Sydney Theater Company short play award and the Elizabethan Theater Trust Biennial Play Award.

Among the numerous contributions that Linda Aronson wrote for television, the screenplay for Kostas deserves special mention. It was nominated for the AFI award.

Linda Aronson regularly teaches screenwriting courses and wrote the textbook Screenwriting Updated , which won the Australian Award for Excellence in Academic Publishing. Other specialist books are television writing. The Ground Rules of Series, Serial and Sitcom, and Writing with Imagination .

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personal data
SURNAME Aronson, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aronson, Linda Jane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH London