Gail Jones
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Gail Jones is an Australia
n novelist and academic.
and educated at the University of Western Australia
. She is currently Professor of Writing in the Writing and Society Research School at the University of Western Sydney
.
Dreams of Speaking
Sixty Lights
Black Mirror
Fetish Lives
The House of Breathing
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n novelist and academic.
Early life and career
Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western AustraliaHarvey, Western Australia
Harvey is a town located in the South West of Western Australia along the South Western Highway, 140 km south of Perth, between Pinjarra and Bunbury...
and educated at the University of Western Australia
University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...
. She is currently Professor of Writing in the Writing and Society Research School at the University of Western Sydney
University of Western Sydney
The University of Western Sydney, also known as UWS, is a multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
.
Awards
Sorry- Shortlisted for Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
, 2008 - Shortlisted for Prime Minister's Literary AwardsPrime Minister's Literary AwardsThe Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards were announced at the end of 2007 by the incoming Rudd Ministry following the 2007 election. They are administered by the Minister for the Arts....
, 2008 - Shortlisted for Nita Kibble Award 2008
- 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
Dreams of Speaking
- Longlisted for Orange Prize (UK)2006
- Shortlisted for Queensland Premiers’ Prize 2006
- Shortlisted for Miles Franklin AwardMiles Franklin AwardThe Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...
, 2007 - Shortlisted for NSW Premier’s Prize 2007
- Shortlisted for Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year 2007
- Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardThe International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is an international literary award for a work of fiction, jointly sponsored by the city of Dublin, Ireland and the company IMPAC. At €100,000 it is one of the richest literary prizes in the world...
, 2008
Sixty Lights
- Western Australian Premier's Book AwardsWestern Australian Premier's Book AwardsThe Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an award for books, scripts, digital narrative and a People's Choice. Awards are provided by the Government of Western Australia, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia...
, Fiction winner and Premier's Prize 2004 - South Australian Premier's Awards, 2006
- ALS Gold MedalALS Gold MedalThe Australian Literature Society Gold Medal is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for “an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year.” From 1928 to 1974 it was awarded by the Australian Literature Society, then from 1983 by the Association for...
, 2005 - The Age Book of the Year Fiction AwardThe Age Book of the YearThe Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. Since 1998 they have been presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival...
, 2005 - Shortlist Miles Franklin Award 2005
- Shortlist Commonwealth Writers Award Pacific Region 2005
- Shortlist NSW Premier’s Fiction Award 2005
- Shortlist Victorian Premier’s Fiction Award 2005
- Longlist IMPAC (Dublin) Award 2006
Black Mirror
- Nita Kibble Literary AwardNita Kibble Literary AwardThe Kibble Literary Awards comprise two awards which are presented annually: the Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female writer, and the Dobbie Literary Award, which is for a first published work by a female writer. The Awards recognise the works...
, 2003 - Western Australian Premier's Book AwardsWestern Australian Premier's Book AwardsThe Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an award for books, scripts, digital narrative and a People's Choice. Awards are provided by the Government of Western Australia, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia...
, Fiction winner 2002 - Shortlisted Age Book of the Year Award 2003
- Shortlisted Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year 2003
- Longlist IMPAC (Dublin) Award 2003
Fetish Lives
- Western Australian Premier's Book AwardsWestern Australian Premier's Book AwardsThe Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an award for books, scripts, digital narrative and a People's Choice. Awards are provided by the Government of Western Australia, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia...
, Fiction joint-winner and Premier's Prize joint-winner 1997
The House of Breathing
- Western Australian Premier's Book AwardsWestern Australian Premier's Book AwardsThe Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an award for books, scripts, digital narrative and a People's Choice. Awards are provided by the Government of Western Australia, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia...
, Fiction winner 1993 - FAW Barbara Ramsden Award Book of the Year, 1992
- T. A. G. Hungerford AwardT. A. G. Hungerford AwardThe T. A. G. Hungerford Award is a biennial Australian literary award, first established in 1998. The award is to encourage new writers from Western Australia who have not previously been published in book form....
for an unpublished work of Fiction by a Western Australian Writer, 1991 - Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2003
- Shortlisted for New South Wales Premier's Fiction Award 2003
External links
- Gail Jones at Random House Australia
- Knowledge (A machine-readable transcription) (1992) 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)