Gail Jones
1955–
Australian novelist and academic whose fiction turns on images, memory and loss. Born in Harvey, Western Australia, she grew up in Broome and Kalgoorlie and took her undergraduate degree and a doctorate at the University of Western Australia. She later became professor of writing at Western Sydney University. After two short-story collections she published her first novel, Black Mirror, in 2002; later novels include Sorry, Five Bells and The Death of Noah Glass, which won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction. Sixty Lights, about an orphaned girl drawn to early photography, was longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize.
Works
- Sixty Lights (2004)
Prizes
- Sixty Lights — The Booker Prize 2004: Longlist