Katerina Cosgrove Katerina Cosgrove i(A18852 works by)
Born: Established: 1973 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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Cosgrove was born in Sydney in 1973 and is of Greek and Irish-Australian parentage. She completed a Bachelor of Arts Communications (Hons) at The University of Technology, Sydney, in 1994, and a PhD in Creative Arts in 2003. In 2007 she was one of the judges of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

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If You Join the Circle, You Must Dance 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 162 2021; (p. 66-72) Island Online - 2021 2021;
2021 shortlisted Island Nonfiction Prize
y separately published work icon Zorba The Buddha Strawberry Hills : Spineless Wonders , 2020 20457228 2020 single work novella 'The year is 1986, Guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh has been exiled from the United States after the highly scandalous failure of his Oregon ashram, Rajneeshpuram. Told from four different perspectives and through various time jumps, Zorba the Buddha documents how this movement fell apart from the inside out. Each character’s experience sheds light on the attractive qualities of the movement’s Master, as well as their individual struggles to follow his commands and align their faith with his teachings. A truly compelling read, Katerina Cosgrove’s novella and reflective essay give insight into the true events that began in Oregon and ended in Crete' (Publication summary)
 
2021 winner The Woollahra Digital Literary Award Fiction
2020 runner-up The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
y separately published work icon The Glass Heart Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2000 Z16694 2000 single work novel

'THE GLASS HEART is a rich, powerful and erotic story, pieced together from fragments of failing memory and seen through the eyes of a young Greek-Australian narrator, travelling in the land of the past. Exquisitely written, THE GLASS HEART explores the burden of family and the binds of love through the relationship between the narrator's grandmother and a man whose failure to satisfy her on her wedding night set the tone for the years to come. Although ostensibly about the jealousies and regrets that colour the narrator's family history, THE GLASS HEART reveals almost as much about the narrator herself. In doing so, it shows how our characters are shaped and coloured by the stories of our ancestors whether we like it or not. ' (Publication summary)

2001 commended The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
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