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Gail Jones (writer)
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic. Early life and careerGail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia. She grew up in Broome and Kalgoorlie.[1] She studied fine arts briefly at the University of Melbourne before returning to Western Australia where she took her undergraduate degree and PhD from the University of Western Australia in 1994.[2] Her thesis was titled Mimesis and alterity: postcolonialism, ethnography and the representation of racial 'others'. She is currently Professor of Writing in the Writing and Society Research School at the Western Sydney University.[3] Jones has also contributed content for an art exhibition, The floating world by Jo Darbyshire (2009).[4] Since 2017 Jones has been involved in a research project Other Worlds: Forms of 'World Literature', for which she is leading a theme titled 'Form as Encounter' that is exploring intercultural intersections and encounters.[5] Personal lifeJones has a daughter, Kyra Giorgi, who is also a writer.[6] AwardsJones was presented with the Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award by Creative Australia in 2024.[7] The House of Breathing
Fetish Lives
Black Mirror
Sixty Lights
Dreams of Speaking
Sorry
Five Bells
A Guide to Berlin
The Death of Noah Glass
Our Shadows
Salonika Burning
Published worksNovels
Short story collections
Critical works
These works have been widely translated.[26] The languages include Italian, German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Polish, Croatian and Czech. References
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