Gail Jones


Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.

Early life and career

Gail Jones was born in Harvey, Western Australia. She grew up in Broome and Kalgoorlie. 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. Her thesis was on Mimesis and alterity : postcolonialism, ethnography and the representation of racial òthers'. She is currently Professor of Writing in the Writing and Society Research School at the Western Sydney University.
Jones has also contributed content for an art exhibition, The floating world by Jo Darbyshire.
Since 2017 Jones has been involved in a research project , for which she is leading a theme titled 'Form as Encounter' that is exploring intercultural intersections and encounters.

Published works

Novels

These works have been widely translated. The languages include Italian, German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Polish, Croatian and Czech.

Awards

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
Jones has a daughter, Kyra Giorgi, who is also a writer.