Archive interview: Jennifer Johnston discusses How Many Miles to Babylon?
Archive interview of Seamus McKee interviewing Jennifer Johnston on her novel, How Many Miles to Babylon?
An archive interview with Seamus McKee in conversation with Jennifer Johnston where she discusses how she came to write her iconic novel, How Many Miles to Babylon?
Jennifer Johnston remains one of Ireland鈥檚 most prolific writers. Johnston established her reputation with a series of short prize-winning novels: The Captains and the Kings (1972), which won the Evening Standard Award for Best First Novel; The Gates (1973); How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974); Shadows on our Skin (1977), shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; and The Old Jest (1979), winner of the Whitbread Novel Award. Later novels include: The Invisible Worm (1991) Grace and Truth (2005), This is not a Novel (2002) and Foolish Mortals (2007).
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