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).

Early life and education

Turner was born in

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and grew up in

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. She studied at the

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and

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, gaining a BA in 1965. She holds an MA from Queen's University, Canada, 1973.

Career

Her books are published in multiple translations. 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.

Honours and awards

Turner Hospital was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Queensland, Australia, for "services to Australian Literature". She has won a number of international literary awards, 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 Tiger in the Tiger Pit'' (1983) *''Borderline'' (novel) (1985) *''Charades'' (novel) (1988) *''A Very Proper Death'', as Alex Juniper (1990) *''The Last Magician'' (1992) *''

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'' (1996) *''Due Preparations for the Plague'' (2003) *''Orpheus Lost'' (2007)David Callahan. ''Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital''. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009 *''The Claimant'' (2014)

Short story collections

*''Dislocations'' (1986) *''Isobars'' (1990) *''Collected Stories'' (1995) *''North of Nowhere, South of Loss'' (2003) *

Articles

References

Citations

Sources

* Brydon, Diana. "The Stone’s Memory: An Interview with Janette Turner Hospital". ''Commonwealth Novel in English''. 4.1 (1991), pp. 14–23. * McKay, Belinda. "Transformative Moments: An Interview with Janette Turner Hospital". ''Queensland Review''. 11.2 (December 2004), pp. 1–1
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* ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'', (ed.) Donald J. Greiner, 48.4 (Summer 2007)
issue dedicated to Janette Turner Hospital

Sibree, Bron (2007-08-06) "To listen and learn", outline of JTH's career and review of ''Orpheus Lost'', in the online version of the ''New Zealand Herald''
ccessed 2007-08-28

External links

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Caught in the Creative Act

Maureen Clark 'Power, Vanishing Acts and Silent Watchers in Janette Turner Hospital's ''The Last Magician'' ' JASAL 8 (2008)

Bernadette Brennan 'Words of Water: Reading Otherness in ''Tourmaline'' and ''Oyster'' ' ''JASAL'' 3 (2004)
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