Gail Jones
Gail Jones (born June 17, 1955 in Harvey (Western Australia) ) is an Australian writer mainly of novels and short stories .
Life
Gail Jones is from Western Australia and studied at the University of Western Australia in Perth . Since 1992 she has published novels and short stories that have been translated into many languages and have won numerous literary prizes. She has taught English literature at the University of Western Australia and since 2001 writing at the University of Western Sydney .
For 2014 she was invited to Germany as a one-year guest in the literature section by the Berlin artist program of the DAAD .
Awards
- 1993 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for The House of Breathing
- 1997 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for Fetish Lives
- 2002 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Best novel for Black Mirror
- 2003 Nita Kibble Literary Award for Black Mirror
- 2004 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Best Novel and Best Debut for Sixty Lights
- 2005 ALS Gold Medal for Sixty Lights
- 2006 South Australian Premier's Awards for Sixty Lights
- 2012 Nita Kibble Literary Award for Five Bells
Works
Novels
- 2002 Black Mirror
- 2004 Sixty Lights
- Sixty lights , German by Conny Lösch, Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89401-562-6
- 2006 Dreams of Speaking
- The dream of speaking , German by Conny Lösch , Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-89401-491-9
- 2007 Sorry
- Perdita , German by Conny Lösch, Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89401-599-2
- 2011 Five Bells
- A Saturday in Sydney , German by Conny Lösch, Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89401-778-1
Stories (anthologies)
- 1992 The House of Breathing
- 1997 Fetish Lives
Web links
- Literature by and about Gail Jones in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gail Jones´ homepage at the University of Western Sydney (English)
- Gail Jones´ publisher's website
- Gail Jones´ biography on the homepage of the International Literature Festival Berlin 2014
- Short biography and reviews of works by Gail Jones at perlentaucher.de
- Literature by and about Gail Jones in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claudia Kramatschek: BKP, guests: Jones, Gail. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
- ↑ Review: Robert Dixon: Ghosts in the Machine: Modernity and the Unmodern in Gail Jones’s Dreams of Speaking. In: JASAL. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. No. 8. 2008, pp. 121-137. ISSN 1447-8986 . Retrieved November 3, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jones, Gail |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harvey (Western Australia) |