Kate De Goldi

Kathleen Domenica De Goldi (born 1959) is a New Zealand novelist, children's writer and short story writer. Her early work was published under the pseudonym Kate Flannery.

Career De Goldi published her first collection of short stories like you, really (1994) under the pseudonym Kate Flannery. and internationally. De Goldi is an Arts Foundation Laureate (named in 2001). De Goldi has received both the 2011 Margaret Mahy Award and the 2011 Young Readers' Award Corine Literature Prize, She is known for children's literature and has also won awards for her short story writing, including the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award in 1999.

In 2025 she was announced as the third New Zealand Reading Ambassador. She will serve in the role until 2027.

Selected works Novels 1996 – Sanctuary, 1997 – Love, Charlie Mike, 1999 – Closed, Stranger, 2008 – The 10pm Question, 2012 – The ACB with Honora Lee, illustrated by Gregory O'Brien, 2015 – From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle, 2022 – Eddy, Eddy,

Picture books 2005 - Clubs: A Lolly Leopold Story, illustrated by Jacqui Colley, 2005 - Uncle Jack, illustrated by Jacqui Colley, 2008 - A Lolly Leopold Story, illustrated by Jacqui Colley,

Editor with Susan Paris 2016 - Annual (Gecko Press) 2017 - Annual 2 (Annual Ink)