Jennifer Johnston

Novelist, Author

1930 –

44

Who is Jennifer Johnston?

Jennifer Johnston is an Irish novelist. She has 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. 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.

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Born
Jan 12, 1930
Dublin
Nationality
  • Republic of Ireland
Profession
Education
  • Trinity College, Dublin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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