Kristen Levitzke is a Perth-based mother, teacher and writer of fiction. She graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2004 with a BA and subsequently completed a postgraduate Diploma of Education. Kristen is currently redrafting her first novel whilst teaching part-time, blogging (kristenlevitzke.com), and raising two delightful boys. Kristen has had a number of short stories published and commended; her highly commended story, Solomon’s Baby, was published in Knitting and other stories; Beach Wedding was highly commended in the Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Award; and Dot’s Garden appears in Margaret River Press’ collection, The Trouble with Flying and other stories. Kristen’s story, Sunny Park Caravan City, was recently longlisted for the Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Prize. Kristen is a true bibliophile with a passion for language, education and literacy development.
Kristen’s Favourite Books :
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Transgressions by Sarah Dunant
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
On Love by Alain De Botton
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkias
Immortality by Milan Kundera
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Praise by Andrew McGahan
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
East, West by Salman Rushdie (short stories)
Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
Where’d you go Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Elemental by Amanda Curtin
Glad to see another big fan of Moon Palace – my all time favourite book. Isn’t it time Auster wrote a sequel, beyond the cryptic references to MS Fogg in Book of Illusions? Atonement is in my top 5 too.
Thanks for popping by and commenting, Nathan. I love Paul Auster’s work. 🙂