Gail Jones is the author of two short-story collections and the novels Black Mirror, Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry, Five Bells , A Guide to Berlin, The Death of Noah Glass and most recently, Our Shadows. In 2019 she won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for The Death of Noah Glass. She has also been shortlisted four times for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the WA Premier’s Award for Fiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction and the ASAL Gold Medal. She has also been shortlisted for international awards, including the IMPAC and the Prix Femina Étranger. Her fiction has been translated into many languages. For the Other Worlds project Gail, along with J.M. Coetzee, managed the Southern Encounters Theme.