Gail Jones | |
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Born | Harvey, Western Australia |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Education | University of Melbourne University of Western Australia (BA, PhD) |
Years active | 1982–present |
Notable works | Dreams of Speaking, Sixty Lights, The Death of Noah Glass |
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.
Gail 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]
These works have been widely translated.[9] The languages include Italian, German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Polish, Croatian and Czech.
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
Jones has a daughter, Kyra Giorgi, who is also a writer.[6]