About Alan
Alan David Gold is an internationally published and translated author. Born in Leicester, Alan Gold began his working life on British provincial newspapers such as the Leicester Mercurybefore becoming a freelance correspondent in the United Kingdom and Europe.
He has written seventeen books which have been published and translated internationally. His novels deal with a wide range of subjects, most often associated with modern and ancient history and politics and Judaism. His most recent publications are Bell of the Desert (the fictionalized life of Gertrude Bell, the woman who was instrumental in the creation of modern Iraq),’The Pirate Queen, about Grace O’Malley and Warrior Queen about the adventures of the British Queen Boudica.
He is a regular literary critic for The Australian and also an opinion columnist for The Spectator Australia. In June 2000, he was the New South Wales Human Rights Orator, as well as the B’nai B’rith Human Rights Orator in Sydney and Melbourne. He is a visiting guest lecturer in literature at major Australian Universities and a regular lecturer and speaker on matters of literature, racism and human rights.
He is a past President of the Anti-Defamation Unit of B’nai B’rith, is a member of think-tanks the Sydney Institute and the Centre for Independent Studies, and has been a board member of the International writers’ centre, Varuna, the Vice President of the human rights program Courage to Care, and the literary co-ordinator of the New South Wales University Shalom College’s Festival, Limmud Oz. He is a visiting scholar to the Melbourne Limmud Oz.
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