Dorothy Johnston

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Dorothy Johnston
Born1948
Geelong, Victoria
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Notable worksOne for the Master
Years active1975-

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[]

  • 1987 - shortlisted Miles Franklin Award for Ruth
  • 1988 - highly commended 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[]

Novels[]

Her books include the Sandra Mahoney quartet of mystery novels.[10]

  • Tunnel Vision (1984)
  • Ruth (1986)
  • Maralinga, My Love (1988)
  • One for the Master (1997)
  • The Trojan Dog (2000) – a Sandra Mahoney novel
  • The White Tower (2003) – a Sandra Mahoney novel
  • The House at Number 10 (2005)
  • Eden (2007) – a Sandra Mahoney novel
  • The Fourth Season (2014) – a Sandra Mahoney novel
  • Through a Camel's Eye (2016) – first in her Sea-Change Mystery series
  • The Swan Island Connection (2017) – a Sea-Change Mystery

Short stories[]

  • "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[]

  1. ^ Johnston, Dorothy (1948 - ) (Australian Women's Archive Project) Accessed: 4 February 2007
  2. ^ "Leaving literary Canberra", published in The Canberra Times 12 January 2008
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Fuller, Peter (19 July 1986). "The Canberra Seven". Canberra Times. p. 1.
  5. ^ Barbalet, Margaret (1988). Canberra tales. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books Australia. p. 261. ISBN 0140111689.
  6. ^ White, Isobel (1988). "Maralinga, My Love: A Novel [Book Review]". Aboriginal History. 12: 203–205 – via Informit.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ Hefner, Robert (13 June 1991). "Author wins award to finish book about life in Canberra". The Canberra Times. p. 10.
  9. ^ "ACT Book of the Year Winners". ACT Virtual Library. Archived from the original on 31 August 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
  10. ^ 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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