Toni Jordan (born 1966 in Sydney, Australia) is a Melbourne-based novelist best known for her debut novel Addition, an international bestseller long listed for the Miles Franklin Award. Addition was made into a feature film in 2024 starring Teressa Palmer and Joe Dempsie.
In 2022 and 2023, she released two novels about the Schnable family, Dinner with Schnables (2022), and Prettier if she Smiled More (2023), which was described as 'sharp-eyed, engaging, endearing and very funny'.
She currently teaches at the Faber Academy.
Awards and nominations 2009: Addition, Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2013: Nine Days, Winner, Indie Book Awards 2017: Our Tiny Useless Hearts, Shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize 2026: Tenderfoot, Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award
Bibliography Novels Here Lives a Kind Woman (1999) Addition (2008) Fall Girl (2011) Nine Days (2013) Our Tiny Useless Hearts (2016) The Fragments (2018) Alles Telt (2021) Dinner with the Schnabels (2022) Prettier if she Smiled More (2023) Tenderfoot (2025)
References
External links Author's official site Text Publishing's author page Good Reads author page Interview with the Sydney Morning Herald Interview with Nick Earls on ABC's The Green Room