Sue Woolfe (born 15 November 1950) is an Australian author, teacher, scriptwriter, editor and documentary film-maker.

Biography

Woolfe was raised in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and completed tertiary studies at the University of Sydney and the University of New England.

Her first novel, Painted Woman, was runner-up in the ABC Bicentennial Awards. Later she adapted the novel for stage and radio.

She was awarded a Doctorate of Creative Arts by the University of Technology Sydney in 2005.

Bibliography

• Also published in France, 2009

• Republished 2009 by University of Western Australia Press.

Awards and nominations

Woolfe won the 1996 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for fiction for Leaning Towards Infinity, which was shortlisted for the US TipTree Prize, and for the Commonwealth Prize, the winner in the Pacific- Asia region, and listed among the top for novels for final prize.

Woolfe received grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, from 1994 to 2015.

References

External links

• Anna North, "Sue Woolfe on writing dangerously", 14 November 2003, The University of Sydney.

• "The Secret Cure" - A review in The Age newspaper.