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Gail Jones (writer)

{{short description|Australian novelist and academic}}

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| birth_place = Harvey, Western Australia

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| education = University of Melbourne
University of Western Australia (BA, PhD)

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| notableworks = Dreams of Speaking, Sixty Lights, The Death of Noah Glass

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| years_active = 1982–present

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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.{{Cite news|title=The influential tourist - Writers adventures inspire award-winning tales|last=Munro O'Brien|first=Jodie|date=2015-08-19|website=Brisbane News}} 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.{{Cite journal |last=McCrea |first=Michael |date=2006 |title=Gail Jones |journal=Wet Ink |volume=3 |pages=26–29 |url=https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.105215684118942 |via=Informit}} 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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/writing_and_society/people/professional_staff/professor_gail_jones |title=Professor Gail Jones |website=University of Western Sydney |language=en |access-date=2018-11-14}}

Jones has also contributed content for an art exhibition, The floating world by Jo Darbyshire (2009).{{Cite web|url=http://www.jodarbyshire.com/exhibitions/the-floating-world-2009|title=The Floating World - 2009 |website=Jo Darbyshire |access-date=2019-08-09}}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/form-as-encounter/ |title=See the Other Worlds website |access-date=2018-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102114134/http://www.formsofworldliterature.com/form-as-encounter/ |archive-date=2019-01-02 |url-status=dead }}

Personal life

Jones has a daughter, Kyra Giorgi, who is also a writer.{{Cite news |last=Wyndham |first=Susan |date=2015-08-08 |title=Gail Jones |work=The Canberra Times}}

Awards

Jones was presented with the Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award by Creative Australia in 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-18 |title=Jones receives Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/11/18/262148/jones-receives-creative-australia-award-for-lifetime-achievement-in-literature/ |access-date=2024-11-20 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}

The House of Breathing

  • T. A.G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished work of Fiction by a Western Australian Writer, 1991{{cite news |title= Writing WA - TAG Hungerford Award winners |url= http://www.writerswritingwa.org/site/index.php?module=subjects&func=viewpage&pageid=28 |date= 2005-09-02 |access-date= 11 July 2007 |archive-date= 6 February 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070206052232/http://www.writerswritingwa.org/site/index.php?module=subjects&func=viewpage&pageid=28 |url-status= dead }}
  • Barbara Ramsden Award Book of the Year, 1992{{Cite web |last= |title=Gail Jones |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A26750 |access-date=2021-05-18 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |language=en}}
  • Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Steele Rudd Award, 1993
  • Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction winner 1993{{Cite web|last=|title=Gail Jones|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A26750|access-date=2021-05-18|website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|language=en}}

Fetish Lives

Black Mirror

Sixty Lights

Dreams of Speaking

Sorry

Five Bells

A Guide to Berlin

The Death of Noah Glass

  • Longlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, 2019{{Cite web|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/03/29/130934/als-gold-medal-2019-longlist-announced/|title=ALS Gold Medal 2019 longlist announced|date=2019-04-03|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-04-03}}
  • Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, 2019{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-02/miles-franklin-shortlisted-authors-announced/11270448|title='Try being a Leb': Author from Punchbowl shortlisted for Miles Franklin|last=Boland|first=Michaela|date=2019-07-02|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-07-02}}
  • Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Fiction winner, 2019{{Cite web|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/10/23/141529/winners-announced-for-pms-literary-awards-2019/|title=Winners announced for PM's Literary Awards 2019|date=2019-10-23|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-10-23}}
  • Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, 2019{{Cite web |date=2018-12-12 |title=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/12/12/121398/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2019-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2018-12-12 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}
  • Shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize, 2019{{Cite web|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/11/19/142559/voss-literary-prize-2019-shortlist-announced/|title=Voss Literary Prize 2019 shortlist announced|date=2019-11-19|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-11-21}}
  • Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, 2020, Fiction Award{{cite web | title=Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | website=State Library of South Australia | url=https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/adelaide-festival-awards-for-literature | date=December 2019 | access-date=2020-01-28 | archive-date=18 May 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518162940/https://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/adelaide-festival-awards-for-literature | url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/03/02/146672/adelaide-festival-awards-for-literature-winners-announced-2/|title=Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature winners announced|date=2020-03-02|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|access-date=2020-03-05}}

Our Shadows

  • Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, 2021{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-05-18|title=Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/05/18/186522/miles-franklin-literary-award-2021-longlist-announced/|access-date=2021-05-18|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
  • Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, 2021{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-12-08 |title=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/12/08/160636/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2020-12-08 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}
  • Shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize, 2021{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-11-16|title=Voss Literary Prize 2021 shortlist announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/11/16/203835/voss-literary-prize-2021-shortlist-announced/|access-date=2021-11-17|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}

Salonika Burning

  • ARA Historical Novel Prize for Adult, winner, 2023{{Cite web |date=2023-10-20 |title=Jones, Mellor win Historical Novel Prize |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2023/10/20/239649/jones-mellor-win-historical-novel-prize/ |access-date=2023-10-21 |publisher=Books+Publishing}}
  • Shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award, 2024{{Cite web |date=2024-09-18 |title=Barbara Jefferis Award 2024 Shortlist Announced |url=https://whisperinggums.com/2024/09/18/barbara-jefferis-award-2024-shortlist-announced/ |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Whispering Gums |language=en}}

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){{Cite news |last=Kavanagh |first=Bec |date=2020-10-22 |title=Our Shadows by Gail Jones review – a quiet rejection of conformity in the Kalgoorlie mines |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/23/our-shadows-by-gail-jones-review-a-quiet-rejection-of-conformity-in-the-kalgoorlie-mines |access-date=2020-10-23 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
  • Salonika Burning (2022)
  • One Another (2024){{Cite news |last=Bird |first=Carmel |date=2024-03-01 |title=New Gail Jones novel looks at the life of Joseph Conrad - The moving story of two lives brushing against each other |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/the-moving-story-of-two-lives-brushing-against-each-other-20240222-p5f72b.html |access-date=2024-03-04 |newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald |language=en-AU}}

= Short story collections =

  • The House of Breathing (1992)
  • Fetish Lives (1997)

= Critical works =

  • Dorothy Green Memorial Lecture [http://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10181/10079 Gail Jones, 'A Dreaming, a Sauntering: re-imagining critical paradigms' JASAL 5 (2006)]
  • The Piano (Australian Screen Classics), Currency Press (2007){{Cite web |title=RealTime Arts - Magazine - issue 80 - the piano replayed & re-read |url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue80/8643 |access-date=2019-08-09 |website=www.realtimearts.net}}

These works have been widely translated.{{Cite news |title=Gail Jones |url=https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/gail-jones |access-date=2018-11-14 |language=en}} The languages include Italian, German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Polish, Croatian and Czech.

References

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External links

  • [http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Authors/Default.aspx?Page=Author&ID=Jones,%20Gail Gail Jones at Random House Australia]
  • [http://wawriting.library.uwa.edu.au/cgi-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/wawriting/jones001/@Generic__BookView;cs=default;ts=default Knowledge (A machine-readable transcription) (1992)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829192448/http://wawriting.library.uwa.edu.au/cgi-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb/wawriting/jones001/@Generic__BookView;cs=default;ts=default |date=2007-08-29 }} University of Western Australia Library, File ID: jones001
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070818053634/http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/piaf/writers/jlwriters.html Perth International Arts Festival 50] State Library of Western Australia (Retrieved 11 August 2007)
  • [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/88/339 Lyn Jacobs 'Gail Jones' "light writing": Memory and the Photo-graph' JASAL 5 (2006)]
  • [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/42/75 Paul Genoni 'Art is the Windowpane' : Novels of Australian Women and Modernism in Inter-war Europe' JASAL 3 (2004)]
  • [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/47/57 Tanya Dalziell 'An Ethics of Mourning: Gail Jones's Black Mirror ' JASAL 4 (2005)]
  • [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/article/view/788/1171 Robert Dixon 'Ghosts in the Machine: Modernity and the Unmodern in Gail Jones's Dreams of Speaking ' JASAL 8 (2008)]

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Category:1955 births

Category:21st-century Australian novelists

Category:Australian women short story writers

Category:Australian women novelists

Category:Living people

Category:People from Harvey, Western Australia

Category:Writers from Western Australia

Category:Academic staff of Western Sydney University

Category:ALS Gold Medal winners

Category:21st-century Australian women writers

Category:21st-century Australian short story writers

Category:University of Western Australia alumni