Coetzee in establishing a series of seminars at Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the umbrella of a project called “Literatures of the South”, but taken up by Gail Jones along with Coetzee in an event they co-convened in Sydney in April 2019 called “Writing from the South”. The second involves a provocation, first made by J.M. The first is that literature is a kind of thinking, and that writers think seriously about the nature of the world through their creative practice. It is therefore informed by two sets of ideas that underpin the project. Coetzee and Nicholas Jose, along with myself and Ben Etherington. Gail has recently taken up a Professorship at UWS.This chapter engages with an Australian Research Council project, “OtherWorlds: Forms of World Literature”, which involved four writers, Gail Jones, Alexis Wright, J.M. Her fiction has been translated into nine languages. She has also been shortlisted for international awards, including the IMPAC and the Prix Femina. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the Age Book of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction and the ASAL Gold Medal. Three times shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, her prizes include the WA Premier's Award for Fiction, the Nita B. Gail Jones is the author of two short-story collections, a critical monograph, and the novels BLACK MIRROR, SIXTY LIGHTS, DREAMS OF SPEAKING, SORRY and FIVE BELLS. Gail has recently taken up a Professorship at UWS.

Five Bells by Gail Jones