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).Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital".''Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975–2000''.Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153–163 She also uses the penname "Alex Juniper".

Early life and education

Turner was born in

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on November 12, 1942 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 Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Susse ...

, 1973.

Career

Turner Hospital published her first story in "Atlantic Monthly" in 1978, and her first novel, ''The Ivory Swing'', in 1982. She 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. She has published six novels as well as three story collections. Her 2003 novel ''Due Preparations for the Plague'' received the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction. Her books, such as ''

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'' and ''Due Preparations for the Plague'', are published in multiple translations."Janette Turner Hospital". ''Canadian Who's Who 2005''. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609. 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.

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) * ''

'' (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'' (2016)

Short story collections

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

Selected articles

References

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
PDF for purchase
* ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'', (ed.) Donald J. Greiner, 48.4 (Summer 2007)
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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