Awards & Winners

Jennifer Johnston

Date of Birth 12-January-1930
Place of Birth Dublin
(Republic of Ireland, Ireland)
Nationality Republic of Ireland
Profession Writer, Novelist
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.

Awards by Jennifer Johnston

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jennifer Johnston.

1979


Costa Novel Award
Honored for : The old jest

1977


Nominations 1977 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize Shadows on our Skin