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Gail Jones

Gail Jones lives in Sydney. She has written short stories and novels and has been short listed for major national and international awards such as the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award.

Awards

Winner, T A G Hungerford Award, 1991
Winner, Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1992
Winner, Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award, 1993
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 1993
Short listed, Banjo Award for Fiction, 1993
Short listed, New South Wales Premier’s Literature Award, 1993
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 1998
Short listed, Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award, 1998
Short listed, Miles Franklin Award, 2008

Books available from Fremantle Press

From the Catalogue

Outdoor Reading in Freo

The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.

Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading

When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au