- Gail Jones
"This article is about the Australian writer. For the article about the American writer see
Gayl Jones "Gail Jones (born
17 June 1955 ) is anAustralia nnovelist andacademic .Gail Jones was born in
Harvey, Western Australia and educated at theUniversity of Western Australia . She has travelled extensively and is currently Associate Professor in the English Department of theUniversity of Western Australia .Awards
"Sorry"
* Shortlisted forMiles Franklin Award , 2008
* Shortlisted forPrime Minister's Literary Awards , 2008"Dreams of Speaking"
* Shortlisted for theInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary Award , 2008
* Shortlisted forMiles Franklin Award , 2007"Sixty Lights"
*South Australian Premier's Awards , 2006
*ALS Gold Medal , 2005
* The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award, 2005
*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards , Fiction winner and Premier's Prize 2004"Black Mirror"
*Nita Kibble Literary Award , 2003
*Western Australian Premier's Book Awards , Fiction winner 2002"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*T. A. G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished work of Fiction by a Western Australian Writer, 1991 cite news |title= Writing WA - TAG Hungerford Award winners |url=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]Bibliography
Novels
* "Black Mirror" (2002)
* "Sixty Lights " (2004)
* "Dreams of Speaking " (2006)
* "Sorry" (2007)Short story collections
* "The House of Breathing" (1992). Also printed in Italian and American editions; Croatian edition to be printed in 2007.
* "Fetish Lives" (1997). Also printed in Italian, Czech and American editions. Selected stories have been translated into French and Hungarian.Notes
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)] University of Western Australia Library, File ID: jones001
* [http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/piaf/writers/jlwriters.html Perth International Arts Festival 50] State Library of Western Australia (Retrieved 11 August 2007)Persondata
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