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Gail Jones

ゲイル・ジョーンズ

Geiru Jōnzu

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
Harvey, Western Australia
Nationality
Australian
Languages
English
Residence History
Harvey, Western Australia → Broome, Western Australia → Kalgoorlie, Western Australia → Sydney

Career

Occupations
novelist, academic, Professor of Writing
Active Years
1982-
Affiliations
Writing and Society Research School, Western Sydney University
Nominations
Shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award 2003 (Black Mirror), Longlisted International Dublin Literary Award 2003 (Black Mirror), Longlisted Booker Prize 2004 (Sixty Lights), Shortlisted Miles Franklin Award 2005 (Sixty Lights), Longlisted Orange Prize 2006 (Dreams of Speaking), Shortlisted Miles Franklin Award 2007 (Dreams of Speaking), Shortlisted International Dublin Literary Award 2008 (Dreams of Speaking), Shortlisted Miles Franklin Award 2008 (Sorry), Shortlisted Nita Kibble Literary Award 2008 (Sorry), Shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2008 (Sorry), Longlisted Miles Franklin Award 2012 (Five Bells), Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2015 (A Guide to Berlin), Longlisted Stella Prize 2016 (A Guide to Berlin), Longlisted ALS Gold Medal 2019 (The Death of Noah Glass), Shortlisted Miles Franklin Award 2019 (The Death of Noah Glass), Shortlisted Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction 2019 (The Death of Noah Glass), Shortlisted Voss Literary Prize 2019 (The Death of Noah Glass), Longlisted Miles Franklin Award 2021 (Our Shadows), Shortlisted Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction 2021 (Our Shadows), Shortlisted Voss Literary Prize 2021 (Our Shadows), Shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award 2024 (Salonika Burning), Shortlisted Christina Stead Prize NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2025 (One Another), Shortlisted Colin Roderick Award 2025 (One Another), Longlisted Voss Literary Prize 2025 (One Another)

Education

University of Melbourne
fine arts
Period: 短期間
Country: Australia
Studied fine arts briefly
University of Western Australia
Degree: BA, PhD
Year of Graduation: 1994
Country: Australia
PhD thesis: Mimesis and alterity: postcolonialism, ethnography and the representation of racial 'others'.

Awards

Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award
2024
Organization: Creative Australia
Result: winner
T.A.G. Hungerford Award
1991
Work: The House of Breathing
Category: unpublished fiction
Organization: Western Australian Writers Centre
Result: winner
Barbara Ramsden Award
1992
Work: The House of Breathing
Category: Book of the Year
Result: winner
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Steele Rudd Award
1993
Work: The House of Breathing
Organization: Queensland Government
Result: winner
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
1993
Work: The House of Breathing
Category: Fiction
Organization: Western Australian Government
Result: winner
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
1997
Work: Fetish Lives
Category: Fiction, Premier's Prize
Organization: Western Australian Government
Result: joint-winner
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
2002
Work: Black Mirror
Category: Fiction
Organization: Western Australian Government
Result: winner
Nita Kibble Literary Award
2003
Work: Black Mirror
Result: winner
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
2004
Work: Sixty Lights
Category: Fiction, Overall Prize
Organization: Western Australian Government
Result: winner
The Age Book of the Year Award
2005
Work: Sixty Lights
Category: Fiction
Organization: The Age
Result: winner
ALS Gold Medal
2005
Work: Sixty Lights
Organization: Association of the Study of Australian Literature
Result: winner
South Australian Premier's Awards
2006
Work: Sixty Lights
Organization: South Australian Government
Result: winner
Nita Kibble Literary Award
2012
Work: Five Bells
Result: winner
NSW Premier's Literary Awards People's Choice Award
2012
Work: Five Bells
Organization: New South Wales Government
Result: winner
Colin Roderick Award
2015
Work: A Guide to Berlin
Result: winner
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
2019
Work: The Death of Noah Glass
Category: Fiction
Organization: Australian Government
Result: winner
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
2020
Work: The Death of Noah Glass
Category: Fiction
Organization: State Library of South Australia
Result: winner
ARA Historical Novel Prize
2023
Work: Salonika Burning
Category: Adult
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Dreams of Speaking

2006 novel

Sixty Lights

2004 novel

The Death of Noah Glass

2018 novel

Bibliography

  • 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)
  • Salonika Burning (2022)
  • One Another (2024)
  • The Name of the Sister (2025)
  • The House of Breathing (1992)
  • Fetish Lives (1997)

Translations of Works

  • Translated into Italian, German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Polish, Croatian, Czech

Legacy

Prominent Australian novelist and academic who has won numerous literary awards, including the Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award from Creative Australia in 2024. Her works have been widely translated.

Trivia

  • Her daughter Kyra Giorgi is also a writer.
  • Her works have been translated into multiple languages including Italian, German, French, etc.