Name Jennifer Johnston Awards Costa Novel Award | Parents Shelah Richards Role Novelist Nominations Man Booker Prize | |
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Books How Many Miles to Babylon?, Shadows on our Skin, The old jest, The invisible worm, The gingerbread woman | ||
Education Trinity College, Dublin | ||
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Jennifer Johnston (born 12 January 1930) is an Irish novelist. She has won a number of awards, including the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest in 1979 and a Lifetime Achievement from the Irish Book Awards (2012). The Old Jest, a novel about the Irish War of Independence, was later made into a film called The Dawning, starring Anthony Hopkins, produced by Sarah Lawson and directed by Robert Knights.
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- Jennifer johnston reads in kennys bookshop
- Desi s latest book reviews jennifer johnston john mcgahern and many more
- Biography
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Desi s latest book reviews jennifer johnston john mcgahern and many more
Biography
Born in Dublin to Irish actress and director Shelah Richards, and Irish playwright Denis Johnston. A cousin of actress and film star Geraldine Fitzgerald, via Fitzgerald's mother, Edith (née Richards), Jennifer Johnston was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and currently lives near Dublin.
Johnston was born into the Church of Ireland and many of her novels deal with the fading of the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy in the 20th century. She married a fellow student at Trinity College, Ian Smyth in 1951. She is a mother of four, and is a member of Aosdána.
Awards and honours
List of works
