Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the United States, 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 United States (MIT, Boston University, Colgate and the University of South Carolina).

She visited the Writer-in-Residence in the MFA program at Columbia University in 2010.[5][6]

She has previously published six novels Oyster, The Last Magician, Charades, Borderline, Tiger in the Pit, and The Ivory Swing, as well as three story collections (Isobars, Dislocations, and Collected Stories). Her 2003 novel Due Preparations for the Plague received the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction.[7]

She is known for her penchant for beginning books with intricate riddles, continues this pattern with her 2014 novel The Claimant , it delves into the complexities of identity, class, and morality against the backdrop of a wealthy Vanderbilt family's fortune.[8]

Honours and awards

Turner Hospital was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Queensland, Australia, for "services to Australian Literature".[9] She has won a number of international literary awards,[10] 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

  • Turner Hospital, Janette (1982). The Ivory Swing. Hodder & Stoughton.
  • 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)[11]
  • The Claimant (2016)

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

Articles

  • "Missing : in search of missing links". Fryer Folios. University of Queensland Library. 12 (1): 10–21. December 2019.

References

Citations

  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. ↑ Birnbaum, Robert (11 November 2003). "Janette Turner Hospital - Identity Theory". www.identitytheory.com. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  8. ↑ Nielson, Lucy. "Janette Turner Hospital weaves a riddling spell in The Claimant". Sydney Morning Herald.
  9. ↑ University of Queensland alumni site: "Janette Turner Hospital, author - Alumni & Community". Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
  10. ↑ "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
  11. ↑ David Callahan. Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009

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