Dorothy Johnston

Dorothy Johnston
Born1948
Geelong, Victoria
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1975-
Notable worksOne for the Master

Dorothy Johnston (born 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. She was a founding member of the Seven Writers Group,[3] also known as Seven Writers or the Canberra Seven,[4] established in March 1980. Five of the original members ceased with the group, but Johnston and Margaret Barbalet continued with new writers.[5]

She was a member of Writers Against Nuclear Arms, with her novel Maralinga, My Love, focusing on the impacts of nuclear testing in Australia.[6]

  1. ^ Johnston, Dorothy (1948 - ) (Australian Women's Archive Project) Accessed: 4 February 2007
  2. ^ "Leaving literary Canberra", published in The Canberra Times 12 January 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. ^ Fuller, Peter (19 July 1986). "The Canberra Seven". Canberra Times. p. 1.
  5. ^ Barbalet, Margaret (1988). Canberra tales. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books Australia. p. 261. ISBN 0140111689.
  6. ^ White, Isobel (1988). "Maralinga, My Love: A Novel [Book Review]". Aboriginal History. 12: 203–205 – via Informit.

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