Dorothy Johnston
Dorothy Johnston | |
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Born | 1948 Geelong, Victoria |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Years active | 1975- |
Notable works | One for the Master |
Dorothy Johnston (born 1948) is an Australian author of both crime and literary fiction. She has published novels, short stories and essays.
Born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Johnston trained as a teacher at the University of Melbourne and later worked as a researcher in the education field.[1] She lived in Canberra from 1979 to 2008, and currently lives in Ocean Grove, Victoria (Australia).[2] She is a former President of Canberra PEN. She was a founding member of the Seven Writers Group,[3] also known as Seven Writers or the Canberra Seven,[4] established in March 1980. Five of the original members ceased with the group, but Johnston and Margaret Barbalet continued with new writers.[5]
She was a member of Writers Against Nuclear Arms, with her novel Maralinga, My Love, focusing on the impacts of nuclear testing in Australia.[6]
Awards and grants
[edit]- 1987 - shortlisted Miles Franklin Award for Ruth
- 1988 - highly commended ABC / ABA Bicentennial Literary Award for Maralinga, My Love
- 1988 - Australia Council fellowship[7]
- 1991 - ACT Literary Award (grant) to complete a book of stories about life in Canberra[8]
- 1998 - shortlisted Miles Franklin Award for One for the Master
- 2001 - joint winner ACT Book of the Year[9] for The Trojan Dog
- 2001 - highly commended Davitt Award for The Trojan Dog
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]Her books include the Sandra Mahoney quartet of mystery novels.[10]
Sandra Mahoney series
[edit]- The Trojan Dog (2000)
- The White Tower (2003)
- Eden (2007)
- The Fourth Season (2014)
Sea-Change Mystery series
[edit]- Through a Camel's Eye (2016)
- The Swan Island Connection (2017)
Standalone novels
[edit]- Tunnel Vision (1984)
- Ruth (1986)
- Maralinga, My Love (1988)
- One for the Master (1997)
- The House at Number 10 (2005)
Short stories
[edit]- "The New Parliament House" and "The Boatman Of Lake Burley Griffin", published in Canberra Tales: Stories (1988) (reprinted as The Division of Love: Stories, 1995); Below the Water Line (1999) and The Invisible Thread, A Hundred Years of Words (2012)
- "A Christmas Story", published in Motherlove (1996)
- "Two Wrecks", published in Best Australian Stories (2008) and Best Australian Stories: A Ten-year Collection (2011)
- "Quicksilver's Ride", published in Best Australian Stories (2009)
Essays
- "Female Sleuths And Family Matters: Can Genre and Literary Fiction Coalesce?", published in Australian Book Review (2000)
- "A Script With No Words", published in HEAT New Series 1 (2001)
- "Disturbing Undertones", published in The Griffith Review (2007)
- "But when she was bad...", published in The Australian Literary Review (2008)
- "The sounds of silence", published in The Age (2009)
- "Fiction's ever present danger", published in Spectrum (January 2011)
References
[edit]- ^ Johnston, Dorothy (1948 - ) (Australian Women's Archive Project) Accessed: 4 February 2007
- ^ "Leaving literary Canberra", published in The Canberra Times 12 January 2008
- ^ Randall, D'arcy "Seven Writers And Australia's Literary Capital", published in Republics of Letters: Literary Communities In Australia, Peter Kirkpatrick and Robert Dixon (Eds.) Sydney University Press, 2012, p205-216.
- ^ Fuller, Peter (19 July 1986). "The Canberra Seven". Canberra Times. p. 1.
- ^ Barbalet, Margaret (1988). Canberra tales. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books Australia. p. 261. ISBN 0140111689.
- ^ White, Isobel (1988). "Maralinga, My Love: A Novel [Book Review]". Aboriginal History. 12: 203–205 – via Informit.
- ^ "Story ends on a happy note for seven authors who share in $2m Grants for Canberra writers". The Canberra Times. 29 October 1988. p. 2.
- ^ Hefner, Robert (13 June 1991). "Author wins award to finish book about life in Canberra". The Canberra Times. p. 10.
- ^ "ACT Book of the Year Winners". ACT Virtual Library. Archived from the original on 31 August 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
- ^ Johnston, Dorothy (June 2016). "Behind the book 1: A camel, a corpse and the coast". Good Reading: 30–32 – via Informit.
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