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 titled Mimesis and alterity: postcolonialism, ethnography and the representation of racial 'others'. 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 (2009). Since 2017 Jones has been involved in a research project Other Worlds: Forms of 'World Literature', for which she is leading a theme titled 'Form as Encounter' that is exploring intercultural intersections and encounters.

Personal life

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

Awards

Jones was presented with the Lifetime Achievement in Literature Award by Creative Australia in 2024. 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 Our Shadows Salonika Burning

Published works

Novels

Short story collections

Critical works

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