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 an Australian novelist and academic.

Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia. She has travelled extensively and is currently Associate Professor in the English Department of the University of Western Australia.

[edit] Awards

Sorry

Dreams of Speaking

Sixty Lights

Black Mirror

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T. A. G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished work of Fiction by a Western Australian Writer, 1991 ^[1]

Novels

Black Mirror (2002)
Sixty Lights (2004). Translated into Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and German editions.
Dreams of Speaking (2006). Also printed in German edition.
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.

Knowledge (A machine-readable transcription) (1992) University of Western Australia Library, File ID: jones001
Perth International Arts Festival 50 State Library of Western Australia (Retrieved 11 August 2007)

Persondata
NAME	Jones, Gail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Contemporary Australian novelist and academic
DATE OF BIRTH	17 June 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Harvey, Western Australia, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH