Gail Jones (writer)

Gail Jones (writer)
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.
Early life and career
Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia. She grew up in Broome and Kalgoorlie. 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. 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.
Jones has also contributed content for an art exhibition, The floating world by Jo Darbyshire (2009).
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.
Published works
Novels
Black Mirror (2002)
Sixty Lights (2004)
Dreams of Speaking (2006)
Sorry (2007)
Five Bells (2011)
A Guide to Berlin (2015)
The Death of Noah Glass (2018)
Our Shadows (2020)
Salonika Burning (2022)
Short story collections
The House of Breathing (1992)
Fetish Lives (1997)
Critical works
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)
These works have been widely translated. The languages include Italian, German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Polish, Croatian and Czech.
Awards
The House of Breathing
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction winner 1993
FAW Barbara Ramsden Award Book of the Year, 1992
T. A. G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished work of Fiction by a Western Australian Writer, 1991
Steele Rudd Award 1993
Fetish Lives
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction joint-winner and Premier's Prize joint-winner 1997
Black Mirror
Nita Kibble Literary Award, 2003
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction winner 2002
Shortlisted Age Book of the Year Award 2003
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
South Australian Premier's Awards, winner, 2006
ALS Gold Medal, 2005
The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award, winner, 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 International Dublin Literary Award 2006
Longlist Booker Prize (2004)
Dreams of Speaking
Longlisted for Orange Prize (UK) 2006
Shortlisted for Queensland Premiers' Prize 2006
Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award, 2007
Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Prize 2007
Shortlisted for Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year 2007
Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, 2008
Sorry
Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award, 2008
Shortlisted for Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 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
Five Bells
Nita Kibble Literary Award, winner, 2012
People's Choice Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, winner, 2012
Longlisted for Miles Franklin Award, 2012
A Guide to Berlin
Colin Roderick Award, Winner, 2015
Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 2015
Longlisted for the Stella Prize, 2016
The Death of Noah Glass
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, 2019
Longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, 2019
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, 2019
Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Fiction winner, 2019
Shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize, 2019
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, 2020, Fiction Award
Our Shadows
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, 2021
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, 2021
Shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize, 2021
Salonika Burning
ARA Historical Novel Prize (adult), winner, 2023
Personal life
Jones has a daughter, Kyra Giorgi, who is also a writer.
References
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)
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