Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia and educated at the University of Western Australia. She is currently Professor of Writing in the Writing and Society Research School at the University of Western Sydney.
Awards
A Guide to Berlin
Colin Roderick Award, Winner, 2015
Shortlisted for NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2015
Longlisted for the Stella Prize, 2016
Five Bells
Nita Kibble Literary Award, Winner, 2012
Longlisted for Miles Franklin Award, 2012
Sorry
Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award, 2008
Shortlisted for Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2008
Shortlisted for Nita Kibble Award 2008
Shortlisted for SA Premiers Fiction Prize 2008
Shortlisted for Victorian Premier’s Award 2008
Longlisted for Orange Prize (UK) 2008
Shortlisted for Prix Femina Etranger (France) 2008
Dreams of Speaking
Longlisted for Orange Prize (UK)2006
Shortlisted for Queensland Premiers’ Prize 2006
Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award, 2007
Shortlisted for NSW Premier’s Prize 2007
Shortlisted for Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year 2007
Shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2008
Sixty Lights
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction winner and Premier's Prize 2004
South Australian Premier's Awards, 2006
ALS Gold Medal, 2005
The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award, 2005
Shortlist Miles Franklin Award 2005
Shortlist Commonwealth Writers Award Pacific Region 2005
Shortlist NSW Premier’s Fiction Award 2005
Shortlist Victorian Premier’s Fiction Award 2005
Longlist IMPAC (Dublin) Award 2006
Longlist Man Booker Prize (2004)
Black Mirror
Nita Kibble Literary Award, 2003
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction winner 2002
Shortlisted Age Book of the Year Award 2003
Shortlisted Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year 2003
Longlist IMPAC (Dublin) Award 2003
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T. A. G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished work of Fiction by a Western Australian Writer, 1991
Steele Rudd Award 2003
Shortlisted for New South Wales Premier's Fiction Award 2003