Gail Jones (writer) explained

Gail Jones
Birth Place:Harvey, Western Australia
Language:English
Nationality:Australian
Education:University of Melbourne
University of Western Australia (BA, PhD)
Notableworks:Dreams of Speaking, Sixty Lights, The Death of Noah Glass
Years Active:1982–present

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.[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]

Personal life

Jones has a daughter, Kyra Giorgi, who is also a writer.[6]

Awards

Jones was presented with the Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award by Creative Australia in 2024.[7]

The House of Breathing

Fetish Lives

Black Mirror

Sixty Lights

Dreams of Speaking

Sorry

Five Bells

A Guide to Berlin

The Death of Noah Glass

Our Shadows

Salonika Burning

Published works

Novels

Short story collections

Critical works

These works have been widely translated.[26] The languages include Italian, German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Polish, Croatian and Czech.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: The influential tourist - Writers adventures inspire award-winning tales. Munro O'Brien. Jodie. 2015-08-19. Brisbane News.
  2. McCrea . Michael . 2006 . Gail Jones . Wet Ink . 3 . 26–29 . Informit.
  3. Web site: Professor Gail Jones . University of Western Sydney . en . 2018-11-14.
  4. Web site: The Floating World - 2009 . Jo Darbyshire . 2019-08-09.
  5. Web site: See the Other Worlds website . 2018-04-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190102114134/http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/form-as-encounter/ . 2019-01-02 . dead .
  6. News: Wyndham . Susan . 2015-08-08 . Gail Jones . The Canberra Times.
  7. Web site: 2024-11-18 . Jones receives Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature . 2024-11-20 . Books+Publishing.
  8. News: Writing WA - TAG Hungerford Award winners . 2005-09-02 . 11 July 2007 . 6 February 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070206052232/http://www.writerswritingwa.org/site/index.php?module=subjects&func=viewpage&pageid=28 . dead .
  9. Web site: Gail Jones . 2021-05-18 . AustLit: Discover Australian Stories . en.
  10. Web site: Gail Jones. 2021-05-18. AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. en.
  11. Web site: ALS Gold Medal 2019 longlist announced. 2019-04-03. Books+Publishing. en-AU. 2019-04-03.
  12. Web site: 'Try being a Leb': Author from Punchbowl shortlisted for Miles Franklin. Boland. Michaela. 2019-07-02. ABC News. en-AU. 2019-07-02.
  13. Web site: Winners announced for PM's Literary Awards 2019. 2019-10-23. Books+Publishing. en-AU. 2019-10-23.
  14. Web site: 2018-12-12 . Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced . 2018-12-12 . Books+Publishing . en-AU.
  15. Web site: Voss Literary Prize 2019 shortlist announced. 2019-11-19. Books+Publishing. en-AU. 2019-11-21.
  16. Web site: Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature . State Library of South Australia . December 2019 . 2020-01-28 . 18 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220518162940/https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/adelaide-festival-awards-for-literature . dead .
  17. Web site: Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced. 2020-03-02. Books+Publishing. en-AU. 2020-03-05.
  18. Web site: 2021-05-18. Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced. 2021-05-18. Books+Publishing. en-AU.
  19. Web site: 2020-12-08 . Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced . 2020-12-08 . Books+Publishing . en-AU.
  20. Web site: 2021-11-16. Voss Literary Prize 2021 shortlist announced. 2021-11-17. Books+Publishing. en-AU.
  21. Web site: 2023-10-20 . Jones, Mellor win Historical Novel Prize . 2023-10-21 . Books+Publishing.
  22. Web site: 2024-09-18 . Barbara Jefferis Award 2024 Shortlist Announced . 2024-09-18 . Whispering Gums . en.
  23. News: Kavanagh . Bec . 2020-10-22 . Our Shadows by Gail Jones review – a quiet rejection of conformity in the Kalgoorlie mines . 2020-10-23 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  24. News: Bird . Carmel . 2024-03-01 . New Gail Jones novel looks at the life of Joseph Conrad - The moving story of two lives brushing against each other . 2024-03-04 . Sydney Morning Herald . en-AU.
  25. Web site: RealTime Arts - Magazine - issue 80 - the piano replayed & re-read . 2019-08-09 . www.realtimearts.net.
  26. News: Gail Jones . 2018-11-14 . en.

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