Joan London
Joan London is the author of two prize-winning collections of stories, SISTER SHIPS, which won the AGE Book of the Year in 1986, and LETTER TO CONSTANTINE, which won the Steele Rudd Award in 1994 and the Premier’s Award for Fiction. These collections were published in one volume by Picador as The New Dark Age. In 2001 her first novel, Gilgamesh, was published, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, as well as a host of other awards, and chosen as the AGE Book of the Year for Fiction in 2002. It was also longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Dublin Impac.The Good Parents, Joan London’s most recent novel, was published in April 2008 to acclaim. It has since reprinted three times was the winner of the 2009 Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary award and was shortlisted for the AGE Fiction Book of the Year . It will be published in the UK and US as well as Europe in 2009.
News and Blog
Exciting news! Random House Australia is thrilled to announce that three incredible local authors are on the 2009 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists. Richard Flanagan’s WANTING and Joan London’s THE GOOD PARENTS in fiction and Don Watson’s AMERICAN JOURNEYS. To view the entire shortlist books click here There is, as yet, no date known for the announcement of the winners, we expect...
On winning The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at last night's NSW Premier's Literary Awards Dinner - London, 60, from Fremantle, said she had wanted to write about parenthood for a long time. "As a parent you are constantly thinking about this process, whether you are doing the right thing," she said. THE GOOD PARENTS, Joan London’s most recent novel, was published in April 2008 to wide acclaim....
Books by Joan London
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Gilgamesh
by Joan London‘Strong, streamlined and remarkably lovely’ – Francine Prose, THE NEW YORK TIMES
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The New Dark Age
by Joan LondonFrom the award-winning author of the internationally-acclaimed novel GILGAMESH.
