1. Kate Forsyth was born on 3 June 1966 and is an Australian author.
14 Facts About Kate Forsyth
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Kate Forsyth is best known for her historical novel Bitter Greens, which interweaves a retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true life story of the woman who first told the tale, the 17th century French writer Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force.
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Kate Forsyth has published two heroic fantasy series, The Witches of Eileanan and Rhiannon's Ride, the poetry collection Radiance, and the novel Full Fathom Five under her maiden name, Kate Humphrey.
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Kate Forsyth is married with three children, and lives in Sydney, New South Wales.
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Kate Forsyth is a direct descendant of Charlotte Barton, the author of Australia's earliest known children's book.
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Kate Forsyth's older sister, Belinda Murrell, is an author for children and young adults and their younger brother, Nick Humphrey, is a nonfiction author.
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Kate Forsyth publishes her poetry under her maiden name, Kate Humphrey.
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Kate Forsyth wrote "Full Fathom Five" as the thesis for her Master of Arts in Writing, and then, to relieve the tedium of studying theorists such as Lacan, Derrida and de Saussure for her exams, she started reading a multi-book fantasy series.
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The turning point was when her husband, Greg Kate Forsyth, suggested that she write such a series herself.
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Kate Forsyth undertook a doctorate in fairy-tale retelling at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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Kate Forsyth is active in presenting workshops for writers, and is a frequently a public speaker, often in schools, and in literary festivals and conferences, bookshops, libraries and museums, on fantasy, folk tales and the role of women in them.
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Academics Fletcher, Driscoll and Wilkins, in defining Australian popular fiction and fantasy note that while Kate Forsyth identifies as an Australian author descended from Australia's first published children's writer Charlotte Waring Atkinson, she is writing for a global readership, and only one of her 40 books is set in Australia.
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Kate Forsyth goes on to distinguish the recurrence of female characters in Forsyth's adult fiction "refusing to bow to societal norms" of patriarchy.
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Kate Forsyth's work has won numerous Aurealis Awards: she won both the Aurealis and the William Atheling Jr.