Dorothy Johnston

Dorothy Johnston (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 and a founding member of the Seven Writers' Group.^[3]

Awards

The Miles Franklin Award	Ruth, shortlisted 1987 One for the Master, shortlisted 1998
ABC / ABA Bicentennial Literary Award	Maralinga, My Love, Fiction, highly commended 1988
ACT Book of the Year[4]	The Trojan Dog, joint-winner 2001
Davitt Award	The Trojan Dog, highly commended 2001

Bibliography

Novels

• Tunnel Vision (1984)
• Ruth (1986)
• Maralinga, My Love (1988)
• One for the Master (1997)
• The Trojan Dog (2000)
• The White Tower (2003)
• The House at Number 10 (2005)
• Eden (2007)

Short stories

• 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 12/1/2008
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. "ACT Book of the Year Winners". ACT Virtual Library. Archived from the original on 2007-08-31. Retrieved 2007-09-03.

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