Gail Jones

This article is about the Australian writer. For the American writer, see Gayl Jones.

Gail Jones (born 1955) is an Australian novelist and academic.

Early life and career

Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia 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.

Awards

Five Bells

• Nita Kibble Literary Award, Winner, 2012
• Longlisted for Miles Franklin Award, 2012

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

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 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2008

Sixty Lights

• Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction winner and Premier's Prize 2004
• South Australian Premier's Awards, 2006
• ALS Gold Medal, 2005
• The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award, 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
• Longlist Man Booker Prize (2004)

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 IMPAC (Dublin) Award 2003

Fetish Lives

• Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction joint-winner and Premier's Prize joint-winner 1997

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• T. A. G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished work of Fiction by a Western Australian Writer, 1991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 2003
• Shortlisted for New South Wales Premier's Fiction Award 2003

Bibliography

Novels

• Black Mirror (2002)
• Sixty Lights (2004)
• Dreams of Speaking (2006)
• Sorry (2007)
• Five Bells (2011)

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)

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

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)