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Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born Melbourne, Australia, 12 November 1942) is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South Carolina).[1] She is also a teacher of literature and creative writing and has been writer-in-residence at universities in Australia, Canada, England, and the US (MIT, Boston University, Colgate, University of South Carolina.) She is currently Visiting Writer-in-Residence in the MFA program at Columbia University.[2][3] She studied at the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers College, gaining a BA in 1965.[4] She holds an MA from Queen's University, Canada, 1973,[5] and a D.Litt (Hon) from University of Queensland, Australia, for "services to Australian Literature.)[6] She has won a number of international literary awards and her books are published in multiple foreign translations.[7]
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[edit] Bibliography
- The Ivory Swing (novel) (1982),
- The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (novel) (1983),
- Borderline (novel) (1985),
- Dislocations (short stories) (1986),
- Charades (novel) (1988),
- Isobars (short stories) (1990),
- A Very Proper Death, as Alex Juniper (novel) (1990),
- The Last Magician (novel) (1992),
- Oyster (novel) (1996)
- Collected Stories (short stories) (1995),
- Due Preparations for the Plague (novel) (2003),
- North of Nowhere, South of Loss (short stories) (2003),
- Orpheus Lost (novel) (2007)[8]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital".Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975-2000.Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153-163
- ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". University of South Carolina. http://www.cas.sc.edu/dean/retired/09-10/hospital.html. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291-321.
- ^ Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital".Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975-2000.Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153-163
- ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291-321
- ^ University of Queensland alumni site: http://www.alumni.uq.edu.au/janette-turner-hospital-author
- ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
- ^ David Callahan. Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009
[edit] References
- 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. 1–10 PDF for purchase
- 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 Accessed: 2007-08-28
