Goldie Alexander, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/goldiealexander/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:48:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Reinventing the Classics: Shakespeare Now! https://booksbywomen.org/reinventing-the-classics-shakespeare-now/ https://booksbywomen.org/reinventing-the-classics-shakespeare-now/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:18:28 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20588 The historian Yuval Noah Harari argues that large numbers of strangers only co-operate by a belief in common myths perpetuated in our folk stories and accepted by our religions. These infiltrate into literature and with time, become our guidelines. Though the worlds they describe might be different, they provide a torch for solving present day […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/reinventing-the-classics-shakespeare-now/feed/ 1 20588 Introducing the Holocaust to Young Readers https://booksbywomen.org/introducing-the-holocaust-to-young-readers/ https://booksbywomen.org/introducing-the-holocaust-to-young-readers/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2015 08:30:51 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13625 In 2014, with the present rise of another wave of Anti-Semitism, I was commissioned by Scholastic Australia to write a novel set in the Holocaust. Given the vast number of novels, memoirs, biographies, essays, poetry and commentaries that have appeared in the last seventy years the task was daunting. Even though I thought I knew […]

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