Joan London (Australian author)

Joan Elizabeth London (born 1948) is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.

Biography
She graduated from the University of Western Australia, having studied English and French; she has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller. She lives in Fremantle, Western Australia.

London is the author of two collections of stories. The first, Sister Ships, won The Age Book of the Year (1986), and the second, Letter to Constantine, won the Steele Rudd Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction (both in 1994). The two were published together as The New Dark Age. She has published three novels, Gilgamesh (2001), The Good Parents (2008) and The Golden Age (2014).

She was awarded the Patrick White Award and the Nita Kibble Literary Award in 2015.

Short stories

 * Sister Ships and Other Stories (1986)
 * Letter to Constantine (1993)
 * New Dark Age (2004)

Novels

 * Gilgamesh (2001)
 * The Good Parents (2008)
 * The Golden Age (2014)

Awards and nominations

 * 1986: The Age Book of the Year and The Age Fiction Book of the Year Award for Sister Ships
 * 1986: Western Australia Week Literary Award for Sister Ships
 * 1994: Steele Rudd Award for Letter to Constantine
 * 1994: Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for Letter to Constantine
 * 2002: The Age Fiction Book of the Year Award for Gilgamesh
 * 2002: Miles Franklin Award Shortlisted for Gilgamesh
 * 2002: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Shortlisted for Gilgamesh
 * 2003: Tasmania Pacific Rim Region Prize Shortlisted for Gilgamesh
 * 2009: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction for The Good Parents
 * 2015: Patrick White Award
 * 2015: Miles Franklin Award shortlisted for The Golden Age
 * 2015: Nita Kibble Literary Award for The Golden Age
 * 2015: Prime Minister's Literary Award for The Golden Age

Critical studies and reviews of London's work

 * Review of The Golden Age.
 * Book Review (15 June 2016).Kirkus Reviews. Review of The Golden Age.