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Jennifer Johnston

Irish writer

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born
1930
died
2025
age at death
95
known for
novelist, writer

1930 – 2025

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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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