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Shadows on our skin jennifer johnston5/12/2023 This theme, which is also at the crux of the well-received The Gates (1973) and How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974), contributed to her being regarded as a belated Big House novelist, a category that Johnston herself has often rejected. Her early work in particular focuses on the vanished and declining world of the Irish Protestant ascendancy. Her first novel, The Captains and the Kings (1972), gained her great acclaim and won the Robert Pitman Award and the Yorkshire Post Prize. Dubbed “the quiet woman of Irish literature” (Cowan, The Guardian 11 February 2004), Johnston started writing at the age of 35, while living in London, and was first published when she was 42. Jennifer Johnston was born in Dublin (1930), the daughter of dramatist Denis Johnston and actress and theatre director Shelah Richards, and in the 1970s moved to Derry, Northern Ireland, where she currently lives.
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