Gail Jones (writer)
Gail Jones | |
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| Born | Harvey, Western Australia |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | University of Melbourne University of Western Australia (BA, PhD) |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Notable works | Dreams of Speaking, Sixty Lights, The Death of Noah Glass |
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.
Early life and career[edit]
Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia. She grew up in Broome and Kalgoorlie.[1] She studied fine arts briefly at the University of Melbourne before returning to Western Australia where she took her undergraduate degree and PhD from the University of Western Australia in 1994.[2] Her thesis was titled Mimesis and alterity: postcolonialism, ethnography and the representation of racial 'others'. She is currently Professor of Writing in the Writing and Society Research School at the Western Sydney University.[3]
Jones has also contributed content for an art exhibition, The floating world by Jo Darbyshire (2009).[4]
Since 2017 Jones has been involved in a research project Other Worlds: Forms of 'World Literature', for which she is leading a theme titled 'Form as Encounter' that is exploring intercultural intersections and encounters.[5]
Published works[edit]
Novels[edit]
- Black Mirror (2002)
- Sixty Lights (2004)
- Dreams of Speaking (2006)
- Sorry (2007)
- Five Bells (2011)
- A Guide to Berlin (2015)[6]
- The Death of Noah Glass (2018)
- Our Shadows (2020)[7]
- Salonika Burning (2022)
- One Another (2024)[8]
Short story collections[edit]
- The House of Breathing (1992)
- Fetish Lives (1997)
Critical works[edit]
- Dorothy Green Memorial Lecture Gail Jones, 'A Dreaming, a Sauntering: re-imagining critical paradigms' JASAL 5 (2006)
- The Piano (Australian Screen Classics), Currency Press (2007)[9]
These works have been widely translated.[10] The languages include Italian, German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Polish, Croatian and Czech.
Awards[edit]
The House of Breathing
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction winner 1993[11]
- FAW Barbara Ramsden Award Book of the Year, 1992[11]
- T. A. G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished work of Fiction by a Western Australian Writer, 1991[12]
- Steele Rudd Award 1993[11]
Fetish Lives
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction joint-winner and Premier's Prize joint-winner 1997[11]
Black Mirror
- Nita Kibble Literary Award, 2003[11]
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction winner 2002[11]
- Shortlisted Age Book of the Year Award 2003[11]
- Shortlisted Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year 2003
- Longlist International Dublin Literary Award 2003
Sixty Lights
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction winner and Premier's Prize 2004[11]
- South Australian Premier's Awards, winner, 2006[11]
- ALS Gold Medal, 2005[11]
- The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award, winner, 2005[11]
- Shortlist Miles Franklin Award 2005[11]
- Shortlist Commonwealth Writers Award Pacific Region 2005[11]
- Shortlist NSW Premier's Fiction Award 2005[11]
- Shortlist Victorian Premier's Fiction Award 2005[11]
- Longlist International Dublin Literary Award 2006[11]
- Longlist Booker Prize (2004)[11]
Dreams of Speaking
- Longlisted for Orange Prize (UK) 2006[11]
- Shortlisted for Queensland Premiers' Prize 2006[11]
- Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award, 2007[11]
- Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Prize 2007[11]
- Shortlisted for Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year 2007
- Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, 2008[11]
Sorry
- Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award, 2008[11]
- Shortlisted for Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2008[11]
- Shortlisted for Nita Kibble Award 2008[11]
- Shortlisted for SA Premiers Fiction Prize 2008
- Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Award 2008
- Longlisted for Orange Prize (UK) 2008
- Shortlisted for Prix Femina Etranger (France) 2008
Five Bells
- Nita Kibble Literary Award, winner, 2012[11]
- People's Choice Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, winner, 2012[11]
- Longlisted for Miles Franklin Award, 2012[11]
A Guide to Berlin
- Colin Roderick Award, Winner, 2015[11]
- Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 2015[11]
- Longlisted for the Stella Prize, 2016[11]
The Death of Noah Glass
- Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, 2019[13]
- Longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, 2019[14]
- Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, 2019[15]
- Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Fiction winner, 2019[16]
- Shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize, 2019[17]
- Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, 2020, Fiction Award[18][19]
Our Shadows
- Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, 2021[20]
- Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, 2021[21]
- Shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize, 2021[22]
Salonika Burning
- ARA Historical Novel Prize (adult), winner, 2023[23]
Personal life[edit]
Jones has a daughter, Kyra Giorgi, who is also a writer.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Munro O'Brien, Jodie (19 August 2015). "The influential tourist - Writers adventures inspire award-winning tales". Brisbane News.
- ^ McCrea, Michael (2006). "Gail Jones". Wet Ink. 3: 26–29 – via Informit.
- ^ "Professor Gail Jones". University of Western Sydney. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ "The Floating World - 2009". Jo Darbyshire. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "See the Other Worlds website". Archived from the original on 2 January 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ a b Wyndham, Susan (8 August 2015). "Gail Jones". The Canberra Times.
- ^ Kavanagh, Bec (22 October 2020). "Our Shadows by Gail Jones review – a quiet rejection of conformity in the Kalgoorlie mines". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- ^ Bird, Carmel (1 March 2024). "New Gail Jones novel looks at the life of Joseph Conrad - The moving story of two lives brushing against each other". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
- ^ "RealTime Arts - Magazine - issue 80 - the piano replayed & re-read". www.realtimearts.net. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Gail Jones". Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae "Gail Jones". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "Writing WA - TAG Hungerford Award winners". 2 September 2005.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2019 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ Boland, Michaela (2 July 2019). "'Try being a Leb': Author from Punchbowl shortlisted for Miles Franklin". ABC News. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- ^ "Winners announced for PM's Literary Awards 2019". Books+Publishing. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ "Voss Literary Prize 2019 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
- ^ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". State Library of South Australia. December 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
- ^ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced". Books+Publishing. 2 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ^ "Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ "Voss Literary Prize 2021 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ^ "Jones, Mellor win Historical Novel Prize". Books+Publishing. 20 October 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
External links[edit]
- Gail Jones at Random House Australia
- Knowledge (A machine-readable transcription) (1992) Archived 2007-08-29 at the Wayback Machine University of Western Australia Library, File ID: jones001
- Perth International Arts Festival 50 State Library of Western Australia (Retrieved 11 August 2007)
- Lyn Jacobs 'Gail Jones' "light writing": Memory and the Photo-graph' JASAL 5 (2006)
- Paul Genoni 'Art is the Windowpane' : Novels of Australian Women and Modernism in Inter-war Europe' JASAL 3 (2004)
- Tanya Dalziell 'An Ethics of Mourning: Gail Jones's Black Mirror ' JASAL 4 (2005)
- Robert Dixon 'Ghosts in the Machine: Modernity and the Unmodern in Gail Jones's Dreams of Speaking ' JASAL 8 (2008)
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Categories:
- 1955 births
- 21st-century Australian novelists
- Australian women short story writers
- Australian women novelists
- Living people
- People from Harvey, Western Australia
- Writers from Western Australia
- Academic staff of Western Sydney University
- ALS Gold Medal winners
- 21st-century Australian women writers
- 21st-century Australian short story writers
- University of Western Australia alumni