Joan Elizabeth London (born 1948) is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.
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.Wilde, Hooton and Andrews (1994) p. 475-6 She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia.
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. 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.
Awards and nominations
Year Work Award Category Result Ref. 1986 Sister Ships The Age Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year Fiction Book of the Year Western Australia Week Literary Award — 1994 Letter to Constantine Queensland Literary Awards Steele Rudd Award Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Fiction 2001GilgameshWestern Australian Premier's Book AwardsFiction 2002 The Age Book of the Year Awards Fiction Book of the Year Miles Franklin Award — New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Fiction 2003 Tasmania Pacific Rim Region Prize — 2004Orange Prize for Fiction— 2009 The Good Parents New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2015 — Patrick White Award — The Golden Age Miles Franklin Award — The Golden Age Nita Kibble Literary Award Nita Kibble Literary Award The Golden Age Prime Minister's Literary Award —
Bibliography Short stories Sister Ships and Other Stories (1986) Letter to Constantine (1993) The New Dark Age (2004)
Novels Gilgamesh (2001) The Good Parents (2008) The Golden Age (2014)
References
External links Joan London at Random House Australia Middlemiss Page on Gilgamesh Review of The Golden Age, with portrait
Critical studies and reviews of London's work Review of The Golden Age. Book Review (15 June 2016).Kirkus Reviews. Review of The Golden Age.
See also Wilde, W., Hooton, J. & Andrews, B (1994) The Oxford Companion of Australian Literature 2nd ed. South Melbourne, Oxford University Press