Janette Turner Hospital

Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 12 November 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the US, principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South Carolina).[1]

Early life and education

Turner was born in Melbourne and grew up in Queensland. She studied at the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers College, gaining a BA in 1965.[2] She holds an MA from Queen's University, Canada, 1973,[3]

Career

Her books are published in multiple translations.[4]

Turner Hospital also teaches literature and creative writing and has been writer-in-residence at universities in Australia, Canada, England and the US (MIT, Boston University, Colgate and the University of South Carolina).

She is currently Visiting Writer-in-Residence in the MFA program at Columbia University.[5][6]

Honours and awards

Turner Hospital was awarded an honorary D.Litt from the University of Queensland, Australia, for "services to Australian Literature."[7] She has won a number of international literary awards,[8] including the Steele Rudd Award for Best Collection of Short Stories, 2012. She was also a finalist (one of five) for Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction and for the Melbourne AGE Book of the Year Award for Fiction.

Bibliography

Novels

  • The Ivory Swing (1982)
  • The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (1983)
  • Borderline (novel) (1985)
  • Charades (novel) (1988)
  • A Very Proper Death, as Alex Juniper (1990)
  • The Last Magician (1992)
  • Oyster (1996)
  • Due Preparations for the Plague (2003)
  • Orpheus Lost (2007)[9]
  • The Claimant (2014)

Short story collections

  • Dislocations (1986)
  • Isobars (1990)
  • Collected Stories (1995)
  • North of Nowhere, South of Loss (2003)
  • Forecast : turbulence, Fourth Estate, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7322-9444-1

Notes

  1. ↑ Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital".Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975–2000.Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153–163
  2. ↑ Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital".Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975–2000.Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153–163
  3. ↑ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291–321
  4. ↑ "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
  5. ↑ "Janette Turner Hospital". University of South Carolina. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  6. ↑ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291–321.
  7. ↑ University of Queensland alumni site: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
  8. ↑ "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
  9. ↑ David Callahan. Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009

References

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