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Jennifer Johnston
Irish writer
dead
- born
- 1930
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 95
- known for
- novelist, writer
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who jennifer johnston is
Jennifer Prudence Johnston was an Irish novelist. She 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 (2012). 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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