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- Birth nameJennifer Prudence Johnston
- Jennifer Johnston was born on January 12, 1930 in Dublin, Irish Free State [now Ireland]. She was a writer, known for The Dawning (1988), The Railway Station Man (1992) and Play for Today (1970). She was married to Smyth Ian and David Gilliland. She died on February 25, 2025 in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland.
- SpousesSmyth Ian(1951 - ?) (divorced, 4 children)David Gilliland(? - 2019) (his death)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesGeraldine Fitzgerald(Cousin)Tara Fitzgerald(Cousin)Michael Lindsay-Hogg(Cousin)Susan Fitzgerald(Cousin)
- Lived in Dublin, Ireland.
- She moved to Derry in the 1970s after meeting her second husband, solicitor David Gilliland, and returned to Dublin on his death in 2019.
- She left Trinity College Dublin in 1951 without completing her degree in English and French after marrying Ian Smyth. She went on to receive an honorary degree from the university in 2001.
- In 2012, she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Book Awards and she was one of the writers nominated in 2014 for the position of first Irish Laureate for Fiction.
- Has four children, Patrick, Sarah, Lucy and Malachi.
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