Joan London (Australian author)

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Joan London (Australian author)

Joan Elizabeth London (born 1948) is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.

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BornJoan Elizabeth London
1948 (age 7677)
Perth, Western Australia
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of Western Australia
Notable worksGilgamesh, The Good Parents
Notable awardsChristina Stead Prize for Fiction, Age Book of the Year Fiction Award, Patrick White Award
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Biography

She graduated from the University of Western Australia, having studied English and French; she has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller.[1] She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia.[2]

London is the author of two collections of stories. The first, Sister Ships and Other Stories, won The Age Book of the Year (1986), and the second, Letter to Constantine, won the Steele Rudd Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction (both in 1994). The two were published together as The New Dark Age.[2] She has published three novels, Gilgamesh (2001), The Good Parents (2008) and The Golden Age (2014).

She was awarded the Patrick White Award and the Nita Kibble Literary Award in 2015.[3]

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Short stories

Novels

References

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