Kate Richards
Kate Richards is an award-winning Australian writer, as well as a doctor and medical researcher. She writes and speaks about her experiences with mental illness, and is the author of two books on the subject.
Early life and education
Richards is a graduate of RMIT University in Melbourne,[1] and Monash University, where she trained as a doctor[2] while battling mental illness in the form of severe depression.[3]
Career
After battling depression for fifteen years, including periods of self-harm and attempted suicide,[4] Richards wrote a detailed account of her personal experiences, both with the illness itself and with the many psychiatrists and other health professionals who treated her. The book, titled Madness: A Memoir, was published by Penguin Books in 2013,[5] and has been widely discussed and positively reviewed by both the literary and the medical communities.[6][7] In 2014 the book won the $5000 Dobbie Literary Award for a first book by an Australian female writer [8] and the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature (non-fiction).[9][10]
In 2014, Richards' second book. Is There No Place For Me? Making Sense of Madness was published by Penguin Books.[11] This book was shortlisted for the Government of Australia Human Rights Non-Fiction Literature Award.[12]
Richards works as a medical researcher,[13] and also writes and lectures about the writing process and about her experiences with mental illness.[14]
References
- ↑ "Bleakly poetic account of a personal struggle for sanity". Tim McGuire, The Australian 23 March 2013
- ↑ "Two of us: Kate Richards and Winsome Thomas".Sydney Morning Herald, 19 January 2013. Interviews by Konrad Marshal
- ↑ "Reading with the AU: Madness: A Memoir - Kate Richards". The AU Review, 23 February 2013 Kassia Byrnes
- ↑ "Madness: A Memoir by Kate Richards". GP Speak, by Robin Osborne, : 20 August 2013
- ↑ "Madness: A memoir" Sydney Morning Herald, 6 April 2013
- ↑ "Stephanie Dowrick urges you to read Kate Richards' brilliant MADNESS" Universal Heart Book Club.
- ↑ "Madness: A Memoir". The Florey Institute.
- ↑ "Kibble and Dobbie awards 2014 winners announced ". Booksellers & Publishers.
- ↑ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 Winners Announced". Booksellers & Publishers.
- ↑ " The week in review". Sydney Review of Books 6 June 2014
- ↑ " Kate Richards, beyond the madness". By ROSEMARIE MILSOM, Newcastle Herald 2 May 2014,
- ↑ "Commission announces business and literature award shortlist". Australian Human Rights Commission.
- ↑ "Kristina Olsson wins Kibble literary award for true tale of a lost child". The Guardian.
- ↑ "Kate Richards: madness" Kate Richards, Ranjana Srivastava Australian Policy Online 5 January 2015
External links
- http://www.penguin.com.au/contributors/6859/kate-richards
- "The dark well" Sydney Morning Herald, 20 January 2013