Joan London (Australian author)

Joan London (Australian author)

Joan Elizabeth London (b. 24 July, 1948) is an award-winning Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.

She was born in Perth, Western Australia. She graduated from the University of Western Australia having studied English and French, has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller. [Wilde, Hooton and Andrews (1994) p. 475-6] She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with her husband Geoff [cite web|url=http://www.swf.org.au/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,174/year,2008/month,05/day,23/Itemid,182/|title=The Sydney Writers' Festival 2008] .

She is the author of two collections of stories. The first, Sister Ships, won The Age Book of the Year (1986), and the second, Letter to Constantine, won the Steele Rudd Award and the West Australian Premier’s Award for Fiction (both in 1994). The two were published together as The New Dark Age [cite web|url=http://www.swf.org.au/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,174/year,2008/month,05/day,23/Itemid,182/|title=The Sydney Writers' Festival 2008] . She has published two novels, Gilgamesh and The Good Parents.

Bibliography

Short Stories
*"Sister Ships" (1986)
*"Letter to Constantine" (1993)
*"New Dark Age" (2004)

Novels
*"Gilgamesh" (2001)
*"The Good Parents" (2008)

Awards and nominations

*2003: Tasmania Pacific Rim Region Prize Shortlisted for "Gilgamesh"
*2002: The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award for "Gilgamesh"
*2002: Miles Franklin Award Shortlisted for "Gilgamesh"
*2002: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Shortlisted for "Gilgamesh"
*1994: Steele Rudd Award for "Letter to Constantine"
*1994: Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for "Letter to Constantine"
*1986: The Age Book of the Year Book of the Year and Fiction Award for "Sister Ships"
*1986: Western Australia Week Literary Award for "Sister Ships"

References

External links

* [http://www.randomhouse.com.au/Authors/Default.aspx?Page=Author&ID=London,%20Joan Joan London at Random House Australia]
* [http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/australian/gilgamesh.html Middlemiss Page on "Gilgamesh"]
* [http://www.smh.com.au/text/ffximage/2008/04/04/joan_london_wideweb__470x283.jpgPhotograph of the Author]

ee also

* Wilde, W., Hooton, J. & Andrews, B (1994) "The Oxford Companion of Australian Literature" 2nd ed. South Melbourne, Oxford University Press

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