Jennifer Johnston

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Irish writer

WritersLived 1930 to 2025 · aged 95

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Jennifer Prudence Johnston was an Irish novelist. She won a number of awards, including the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest in 1979 and a Lifetime Achievement from the Irish Book Awards (2012).

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Awards 3

2009Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Irish PEN Award

Giuseppe Acerbi literary prize

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Julie PerreaultAlso in Dodging the Clock (2005)

Marlis PetersenAlso in Korngold: Die tote Stadt (2019)

Ricardo TrogiAlso in Dodging the Clock (2005)

John McGahernAlso won Irish PEN Award

About this person

Jennifer Prudence Johnston was an Irish novelist. She won a number of awards, including the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest in 1979 and a Lifetime Achievement from the Irish Book Awards (2012). The Old Jest, a novel about the Irish War of Independence, was later made into a film called The Dawning, starring Anthony Hopkins, produced by Sarah Lawson and directed by Robert Knights.