Elisabeth Holdsworth Elisabeth Holdsworth i(A31067 works by) (birth name: Elisabeth Miriam Esther De Rijke-Nassau) (a.k.a. E. M. Holdsworth)
Born: Established: 1947 Middelburg, Zeeland,
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Netherlands,
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: Dec 1959
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1 y separately published work icon An Die Nachgeborenen : For Those Who Come After : Read by Elisabeth Holdsworth, Winner of the Inaugural Calibre Essay Prize Elisabeth Holdsworth (presenter), 2021 23442343 2021 single work podcast

'In today’s episode, ABR looks back at the winner of the inaugural Calibre Essay Prize in 2007: ‘An Die Nachgeborenen: For Those Who Come After’ by Elisabeth Holdsworth. Holdsworth was born in the Netherlands in the years following World War II. Zeeland, where she grew up, was heavily bombed during the war and later flooded. Her poignant essay is a dialogue with the past, detailing her recent return to the Netherlands, her family’s vicissitudes and suffering during the war, and an unforgettable portrait of her conflicted mother.' (Production summary)

1 The Other Side of the Story : The Smuggler as Humanitarian Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 434 2021; (p. 29)

— Review of Smuggled 2021 anthology essay biography

'Professors Ruth Balint and Julie Kalman are descended from Jews impacted by the Holocaust. No surprise then that in the introductory sentences of this work they remind us that the first people smuggler was probably Moses. Throughout the Jewish year, we study this colossus, who may or may not have existed, as he leads the Hebrews out of Pharaoh’s bondage into the desert toward a promised land. For much of the past two thousand years, Jews have relied on people smugglers as they were shunted from country to country. In Smuggled: An illegal history of journeys to Australia, Balint and Kalman detach the people smuggler from the politicised, malign tropes surrounding this activity and present firsthand accounts from some of those who were smuggled and from the smugglers themselves.' (Introduction)

1 'If This Is a Jew' Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 396 2017; (p. 49-57)

'For most of my life I have thought of myself as a secular Jew; fascinated by the turbulent history of the Jews, not part of synagogue life. All that changed in 2012. We were living in Goulburn, New South Wales, at the time. My husband was on the point of retirement and we were about to move back to Victoria. During winter, influenza and then pneumonia raged through the town; some people died. Despite being vaccinated, I too succumbed. One morning, I was convinced that someone had placed a ton of concrete on my chest. Something had. My next memory is of waking during the night in hospital in an isolation room, hooked up to tubes and monitors. A man was sleeping in an armchair next to the bed. I recognised him as the doctor who had admitted me, hours, days, years ago. I learnt later that he had been there most of that night pumping antibiotics into me.' (Introduction)

1 Grimm Parcels Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 389 2017; (p. 54)
‘Valerie Murray, born Valika Morelli in Hungary during World War II and, for the past half century, wife of poet Les Murray, has written an enchanting memoir of her early life in Europe and Australia. The description ‘enchanting’ is used deliberately. The brothers Grimm and their terrifying tales are deployed throughout the work. The metaphor extends to the writing style – spaced paragraphs of fractured nightmarish episodes interspersed with mordant humour.’ (Introduction)
1 The Interpretation of Dreams, The Friends of Our Youth and 83 Seconds Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 76 no. 2 2017; (p. 77-92)
'We stumbled on the cottage one summer, coming upon the sagging timber structure half-hidden amongst a medley of exotic and native foliage. Around the back, taller than the building, a water tank reduced to rusty lacework rested on metal stilts...' (Introduction)
1 Layers of the Labyrinth Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 335 2011; (p. 55)

— Review of For the Patriarch Angelo Loukakis , 1981 selected work short story
1 A Question of Leadership Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 334 2011; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Fair Cop Christine Nixon , 2011 single work autobiography
1 Profile : Elisabeth Holdsworth Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2011 single work autobiography
— Appears in: ACTWrite , April vol. 17 no. 3 2011; (p. 3)
2 8 y separately published work icon Those Who Come After Elisabeth Holdsworth , Sydney : Picador , 2011 Z1768713 2011 single work novel 'Juliana Stolburg was a pretty child, but small. She would collect sounds and mimic them: the hollow clip-clop of horses' hooves on cobblestones, the growl of Papa's motorbike. Papa was a hero of the Resistance. His long leather coat smelled of tobacco, gin and the sea. Mama returned from the death camp at Dachau carrying a cardboard suitcase the Americans gave her.
Leaving their grand estates behind, the family sail to Australia. The buildings there are so new. But the sky is high. And there is a strange man, Philly. Juliana has a knack for languages and becomes a diplomat. She travels the world. At the end of her career, against the backdrop of drought and a crumbling marriage, she tells of what happened after the war - for herself, yes, and for all those who come after.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Untitled Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 2 no. 1 2009;

— Review of The Celebrated George Barrington : A Spurious Author, the Book Trade, and Botany Bay Nathan Garvey , 2008 single work criticism
1 [Review] Fragments from a Paper Witch Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 1 no. 2 2009;

— Review of Fragments from a Paper Witch Marion Campbell , 2008 selected work poetry prose drama
1 Uc Dai Loi He Cheap Charlie Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 57-58)

— Review of Captain Bullen's War : The Vietnam War Diary of Captain John Bullen John Bullen , 2009 single work diary
1 Untitled Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2009 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July-August no. 313 2009; (p. 4)
1 Missing from My Own Life Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2008 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 305 2008; (p. 31-34)
1 Patron's Corner Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 304 2008; (p. 31)
1 New Holland Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2008 single work essay
— Appears in: Heat , no. 16 (New Series) 2008; (p. 81-94)
1 1 Something in the Water Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2008 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 299 2008; (p. 4)
1 Some Thoughts on Winning the Calibre Prize Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2007 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 289 2007; (p. 5)
1 4 An die Nachgeborenen : For Those Who Come After Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2007 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February no. 288 2007; (p. 19-29)
1 Kangaroo Elisabeth Holdsworth , 2005 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2005; (p. 18-23)
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