Alan Gold (author)

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Alan David Gold (1945–2024) was a novelist, columnist, and human rights activist.^[1]

Born in Leicester, United Kingdom, Alan Gold began his working life on British provincial newspapers such as the Leicester Mercury before becoming a freelance correspondent in the United Kingdom and Europe. He and his wife Eva moved to Australia in 1970.^[2]

He wrote more than thirty books which were published and translated internationally. His novels dealt with a wide range of subjects, most often associated with modern and ancient history and politics and Judaism.

He was a regular literary critic for The Australian and also an opinion columnist for The Spectator Australia.^[3] 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 was 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 was a past President of the Anti-Defamation Unit of B'nai B'rith, was a member of think tanks the Sydney Institute and the Centre for Independent Studies, and 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 was a visiting scholar to the Melbourne Limmud Oz.

He was married with three children and lived in Sydney, Australia.

Gold died after a long illness in June 2024. His funeral was held at Rookwood Cemetery on 19 June 2024.^[4][5]

• Gold, Alan (4 January 2014). "Diary". The Spectator Australia. 324 (9671): v.
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