Cassandra Golds


Cassandra Golds is an Australian children's author.
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Career

Her first book, Michael and the Secret War, was accepted for publication when she was nineteen years old. In collaboration with the artist Stephen Axelsen, she went on to write a number of graphic novels, all of which were published as monthly serials in New South Wales School Magazine. Her writing has been described as part parable, part surrealist fable and part love story. Her novel, The Three Loves of Persimmon, was winner of the in 2011 Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for [Young Adults] and shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and WA Premier's Literary Awards.
The artist Sonia Kretschmar submitted a painting of the author to the List of [Archibald Prize 2011 finalists|2011 Archibald Prize].

Publications

  • Michael and the Secret War
  • Clair-de-Lune
  • The Mostly True Story of Matthew and Trim.
  • The Museum of Mary Child
  • The Three Loves of Persimmon
  • ''Pureheart''