Linda Aronson

Linda Aronson has won awards as a playwright, scriptwriter, comic novelist for young adults and screenwriting theorist.

Her book (Screenwriting Updated; New and Conventional Ways of Writing for the Screen - published in Australia as Scriptwriting Updated,) is the leading text internationally on how to write non-linear films. She teaches screenwriting everywhere from Africa to Paris, Prague, London, Sydney, New York and Los Angeles. Screenwriting Updated won The Australian Award for Excellence in Academic Publishing.

Linda’s young adult comic fiction is published in ten countries. Her first novel Kelp: a comedy about love, seaweed and Rupert Murdoch became an instant best seller, won the Sanderson Award and is soon to become a feature film. Her second novel Rude Health was was nominated for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award. The sequel Plain Rude, a comedy about love, lies and an emu called Bruce Willis came out in July 2004, published by Penguin Australia and Pan UK. A new novel is to be published in 2006.

Linda’s best-known stage play is Dinkum Assorted, written for fifteen women and a nanny goat, which premiered at the Sydney Opera House, and for which she also wrote the music. It has rarely been out of production since 1988. Linda’s play Reginka’s Lesson won both the Sydney Theatre Company short play award and the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Biennial Play Award.

Linda is also well-known as an multi-award-winning television writer,with screen credits for TV mini-series, fifty minute and twenty-five minute drama series, drama documentary and children's TV. She has worked for TV companies from Australia, New Zealand, UK and USA. Her screenplay Kostas was nominated for both an AFI award and a Writers’ Guild AWGIE.

She has written two other books on the craft of writing: Television Writing: The Ground Rules of Series, Serial and Sitcom and Writing with Imagination, which was written especially for secondary and TAFE students.

Linda was born and brought up in the UK. She read English Literature at the University of Ulster, and later worked on a D.Phil on ninteenth century English fiction at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.

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