Joan London (Australian author)

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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.[1] She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with her husband Geoff[2].

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[3]. She has published two novels, Gilgamesh and The Good Parents.

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[edit] Bibliography

Short Stories

  • Sister Ships (1986)
  • Letter to Constantine (1993)
  • New Dark Age (2004)

Novels

[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] References

  1. ^ Wilde, Hooton and Andrews (1994) p. 475-6
  2. ^ The Sydney Writers' Festival 2008.
  3. ^ The Sydney Writers' Festival 2008.

[edit] External Links

[edit] See 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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NAME London, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Novelist and short story writer
DATE OF BIRTH 24 July 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth, Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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