Gail Jones

Gail Jones is a professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. The author of seven novels and two collections of stories, she is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, awarded several prizes in Australia. Internationally her fiction has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC Award and the Prix Femina Étranger. She lives in Glebe, NSW.

Works By Gail Jones

Turnings and Over-turnings in Glebe
Since I did not grow up here, and arrived knowing no-one, Glebe was both without memory and emphatically real. The new resident seeks not only the stories of a place, but also its genii loci and forms of unconcealment. Something small becomes the
8 Feb. 2018

Works Featuring Gail Jones

Matches in the Dark
If the narrative has a driving question, it is the eternal one of how to live, find meaning, amidst all the sorrow and horror.
6 Mar. 2022
Figures in Geometry: The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
What we have entered here is a mise-en-abyme of ekphrasis: the text and images of one book, and the description of a painting in a notebook, all contained within another book, call up a cascade of images for the reader of this novel about art.
6 Sept. 2018

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Gail Jones

Works By Gail Jones

Turnings and Over-turnings in Glebe

Works Featuring Gail Jones

Matches in the Dark

Figures in Geometry: The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones