Jayne Joso

Jayne Joso is a British novelist, playwright, writer and artist.

Novels

  • Soothing Music for Stray Cats. Talybont: Alcemi. 2009. ISBN 9780955527258. [1]
  • Perfect Architect. Talybont: Alcemi. 2011. ISBN 9780956012524. [2][3][4]
  • My Falling Down House. Bridgend: Seren Books. 2016. ISBN 9781781723395. "an unacknowledged gem" The New York Times[5]

Plays

  • China’s Smile

Short stories

  • Purple Beach[6] 3AM Magazine, April 26, 2012
  • To the Lighthouse, New Welsh Review, Issue 97
  • Tokyo Spaces, New Welsh Review[7] Issue 100 - 100th Anniversary Edition.
  • Fox Man, New Welsh Review[7] Issue 105
  • My Falling Down House, New Welsh Review[8] Issue 107

Children's books

  • How do you Feel?

Poetry

  • Desire

Awards and honours

  • 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize - longlisted for My Falling Down House
  • 2016 Arts Council England Funding Award to write the novel: From Seven to the Sea
  • 2013 Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation award to support research in Japan for the novel: My Falling Down House[9]
  • 2012 International Writer in Residence - The Coracle - Wexford, Ireland (A Sense of Place)
  • 2011 People's Book Prize - finalist, for Perfect Architect[10]
  • 2009 People's Book Prize - shortlisted, for Soothing Music for Stray Cats[11]

References

  1. ↑ Thomson, Ian (24 April 2009). "Ska, rap, 2 Tone and doo-wop". Times Literary Supplement. p. 19. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Pyzik, Agata. "Perfect Architect". Icon Magazine. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "PerfectArchitect". Publisher's Weekly. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Miller, Keith (16 December 2011). "Jayne Joso PERFECT ARCHITECT". Times Literary Supplement. p. 21. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  5. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/books/review/richard-lloyd-parry-by-the-book.html
  6. ↑ "Purple Beach". 3ammagazine.com. 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
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  9. ↑ "The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Annual Report & Accounts 2013: For the year ended 31 December 2013" (PDF). Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. p. 8.
  10. ↑ "Winners 2011/2012". The People's Book Prize. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  11. ↑ "The People's Book Prize Short List 2009/10 - Fiction". The People's Book Prize. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
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