About Linda
Linda Aronson is a working writer with awards as a scriptwriter,playwright and novelist. She has thirty years experience as a scriptwriter working for companies from Australia, UK, New Zealand and USA. As a scriptwriter, she has credits for feature film, TV series and serials, mini-series, children's TV, radio drama, stage plays, and TV drama-documentary. Her young adult fiction is published in many languages and her hit stage comedy Dinkum Assorted (about life in a World War II biscuit factory, written for a cast of fifteen women and a nanny goat,and for which she also wrote music and lyrics) has rarely been out of production somewhere since it premiered at the Sydney Opera House over twenty years ago. She has also published short stories and satirical journalism.
Linda also works internationally as a script consultant. She was the first to provide practical guidelines to writing parallel narrative screenplays (flashbacks, flash forwards, non-linear narrative, ensemble casts, multiple storylines etc ) in her groundbreaking award-winning book Screenwriting Updated, and is considered by many to be the world expert on the subject. She has guest lectured for many film industry professional bodies and film schools all over the world, including NYU, Columbia, American Film Institute, Berkeley (USA) NFTS, The Script Factory, Goldsmiths, Scottish Screen Academy (UK), FAS (Dublin), CEEA (Paris) DFFB (Berlin), NFTVA (Amsterdam), FAMU (Prague), Danish National Film School, the Swedish Film Institute and many more across Australia, New Zealand and in South Africa.
Awards include Writers' Guild Awards for TV, The Elizabethan Theatre Trust Biennial Play Prize, STC Short Play Prize, Banff TV Series Prize, NSW Women and Arts Fellowship, The Sanderson Book Prize National Award for Academic Excellence in Publishing. Nominations include Writers' Guild awards for Best Stage Play, Best Original Screenplay, Best MiniSeries, Best TV Series Episode, Best Work for Children. Other nominations include AFI Best Original Screenplay (for her acclaimed film Kostas) and, for various of her novels, nominations for a number of Premier's State Literary Awards.
Her books Screenwriting Updated and The 21st Century Screenplay are required reading at many film schools internationally. Other text books include Television Writing: The Ground Rules of Series, Serials and Sitcom and Writing with Imagination a book for schools. Her four novels are Kelp, A comedy about Love Seaweed and Rupert Murdoch, Rude Health,Plain Rude and Naturally Rude.
Linda was born in London and studied English Literature at The University of Ulster. She worked for some years on a D.Phil in late nineteenth century fiction at Oxford, while at St Hilda's College
Linda also works internationally as a script consultant. She was the first to provide practical guidelines to writing parallel narrative screenplays (flashbacks, flash forwards, non-linear narrative, ensemble casts, multiple storylines etc ) in her groundbreaking award-winning book Screenwriting Updated, and is considered by many to be the world expert on the subject. She has guest lectured for many film industry professional bodies and film schools all over the world, including NYU, Columbia, American Film Institute, Berkeley (USA) NFTS, The Script Factory, Goldsmiths, Scottish Screen Academy (UK), FAS (Dublin), CEEA (Paris) DFFB (Berlin), NFTVA (Amsterdam), FAMU (Prague), Danish National Film School, the Swedish Film Institute and many more across Australia, New Zealand and in South Africa.
Awards include Writers' Guild Awards for TV, The Elizabethan Theatre Trust Biennial Play Prize, STC Short Play Prize, Banff TV Series Prize, NSW Women and Arts Fellowship, The Sanderson Book Prize National Award for Academic Excellence in Publishing. Nominations include Writers' Guild awards for Best Stage Play, Best Original Screenplay, Best MiniSeries, Best TV Series Episode, Best Work for Children. Other nominations include AFI Best Original Screenplay (for her acclaimed film Kostas) and, for various of her novels, nominations for a number of Premier's State Literary Awards.
Her books Screenwriting Updated and The 21st Century Screenplay are required reading at many film schools internationally. Other text books include Television Writing: The Ground Rules of Series, Serials and Sitcom and Writing with Imagination a book for schools. Her four novels are Kelp, A comedy about Love Seaweed and Rupert Murdoch, Rude Health,Plain Rude and Naturally Rude.
Linda was born in London and studied English Literature at The University of Ulster. She worked for some years on a D.Phil in late nineteenth century fiction at Oxford, while at St Hilda's College
