Susan Johnson (born 1956) is an Australian author of literary fiction, memoir, short stories and essays. She has been a full-time writer since 1985, with occasional stints of journalism at Australian newspapers, journals and magazines.
Biography
Johnson was born in 1956, in
Brisbane, Queensland
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
. She spent her childhood in Sydney, attending St Ives High School In New South Wales and then Nambour High School and Clayfield College in Queensland. She is currently Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, Queensland University of Technology. Her latest novel ''The Landing'' was published in August, 2015.
At the
National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ...
Johnson delivered the ''2011 Ray Mathew Lecture''
entitled "Prodigal Daughter", in which she explored the topic of expatriate Australian women authors, her ambivalent relationship to Australia, and Australia's attitude towards its artists.
Susan Johnson was on the program to appear in 3 events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
,
Queensland
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Australia.
Published works
* ''Latitudes: New Writing From The North'', University of Queensland Press, 1986.
* ''Messages from Chaos'' Harper and Row, 1987.
* ''Flying Lessons'', Heinemann 1990.
* ''A Big Life'', MacMillan, 1993.
* ''Women Love Sex'', Vintage, 1996.
* ''A Better Woman: A Memoir'' Random House, 1999.
* ''The Broken Book'', Allan & Unwin, 2005.
* ''Life in Seven Mistakes'', Heinemann, 2008.
* ''On Beauty'', Melbourne University Press, 2009.
* ''My Hundred Lovers,'' Allen & Unwin, 2012.
* ''The Landing,'' Allen & Unwin, 2015.
*''From Where I Fell'', Allen & Unwin, 2021.
Contributed chapter
* "Outside manners", pp. 206–215, in: ''Destroying the joint'', edited by
Jane Caro
Catherine Jane Caro (born 24 June 1957) is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia.
Early life and education
Caro was born in London in 1957 and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963 ...
, Read How You Want (2015, ).
Honors and awards
* 1985: Australia Council Literature Board New Writers Grant
* 1989:
Nancy Keesing Fellowship at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris.
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References
External links
*
Pandora (Australia's Web Archive, archiving Susan Johnson's 'A Better Woman' blog as one of significance
* http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Johnson%2C%20Susan%2C%201956-%22&iknowwhatimean=1
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20th-century Australian novelists
21st-century Australian novelists
Australian non-fiction writers
Australian women short story writers
Australian women novelists
Living people
1956 births
20th-century Australian women writers
21st-century Australian women writers
20th-century Australian short story writers
21st-century Australian short story writers