Pippa Goldschmidt

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Pippa Goldschmidt (2011)

Pippa Goldschmidt (born in London ) is a British writer.

biography

Goldschmidt's grandfather came from Offenbach and fled the Third Reich to England in 1936. She completed a degree in physics with astronomy at the University of Leeds and has been in professional astronomy at the Universitiy of Edinburgh to the doctor doctorate . She then did a postdoctoral fellowship at Queen Mary University and Imperial College London, and then worked at the British National Space Center and the Department of Commerce and Industry on homelessness policy for the Scottish government and offshore renewable energy policy for the Navy Scotland.

In 2008 she received a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow .

Her debut novel The Falling Sky was published in 2013 and her short story collection The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space was published in 2015 . In 2015 she was co-editor of I am because you are , a collection of short stories on the subject of relativity, which was published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Einstein's general theory of relativity .

Goldschmidt was Writer in Residence at the ESRC Geonomics Policy and Research Forum , the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh , the Wigtown Book Festival in Heidelberg and Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh in the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies .

At the beginning of 2020, she and her partner moved from Edinburgh to Frankfurt-Bockenheim .

Publications (selection)

  • as ed. with Tania Hershman, Helen Sedgwick: I Am Because You Are. An Anthology of New Writing Celebrating the Centenary of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Liberth Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1910449264 .

Translations in German

Awards and honors

  • Farther than Heaven was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize (2012)
  • "Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award" (2012)
  • In the selection for the "Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award" (2015)
  • Suffrage Science Award (2016)
  • In the selection for the "Edge Hill Short Story Prize" (2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ heidelberg.de - Evening with Pippa Goldschmidt. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Rita Thies: Interview with Pippa Goldschmidt. https://www.wiesbaden.de/ , accessed on August 21, 2020 .
  3. ^ Making Government Policy Work. In: A New View of the Universe: Big science for the big society. Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), accessed August 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Spatial Plan Framework & Regional Locational Guidance for Marine Energy Draft Report. The Scottish Government / Marine Scotland, accessed August 22, 2020 .
  5. ^ University of Glasgow - Subjects AZ - Creative Writing - Alumni. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Falling Sky by Pippa Goldschmidt | Pippa Goldschmidt. Retrieved August 22, 2020 (UK English).
  7. ^ The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space | Pippa Goldschmidt. Retrieved August 22, 2020 (UK English).
  8. ↑ Phil Clement: Review: 'I Am Because You Are' edited by Tania Hershman & Pippa Goldschmidt | Structo. Retrieved August 22, 2020 (UK English).
  9. ^ Meet the School's writer in residence, Pippa Goldschmidt. Retrieved August 22, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ heidelberg.de - Evening with Pippa Goldschmidt. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
  11. ^ Pippa Goldschmidt. Retrieved August 22, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Goldschmidt, Pippa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH London