Gail Jones

Gail Jones (born 1955) 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 (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.
Published works.
Critical works.
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"
"Our Shadows"
Personal life.
Jones has a daughter, Kyra Giorgi, who is also a writer.