Janice Galloway
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| Janice Galloway | |
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| Born | 1955 Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Occupation | novelist, short story writer |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Writing period | contemporary |
| Genres | general fiction |
| Notable work(s) | The Trick is To Keep Breathing (1989) |
| Notable award(s) | MIND Book of the Year, Allen Lane Award, E. M. Forster Award |
Janice Galloway (born 1955 in Saltcoats, Scotland) is a Scottish writer of short stories and novels.
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[edit] Biography
She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. Her sister Nora (d. 2000) was much older than she. Her parents separated when she was four and her father died when she was six. She read Music and English at Glasgow University. She then worked as a school teacher for ten years before turning to writing.
She has been writer in residence at four prisons in Scotland. She was also the Times Literary Supplement Research Fellow at the British Library in 1999. Her awards include: MIND/Allan Lane Award (for The Trick is to Keep Breathing), the McVitie's Prize (for Foreign Parts), the E.M. Forster Award (presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters), the Creative Scotland Award and the Saltire Book of the Year (for Clara).
Janice Galloway currently lives in South Lanarkshire with her son James.
In December 2008 she was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.[1]
[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989)
- Foreign Parts (1994)
- Clara (2002) (based on the life of Clara Schumann)
[edit] Collections of short stories
- Blood (1991)
- Where You Find It (1996)
and widely anthologised in collections since 1990.
[edit] Poetry
- Boy Book See (2002)
[edit] Other texts
- This is Not About Me (2008, Autobiography)
- Pipelines (2000, prose and poetry text to accompany Anne Bevan's exhibition "undercovered")
- Rosengarten (2004, a book of prose and poetry, matched with an exhibition of obstetrical implements by Anne Bevan)
- Chute (1998, French play/monologue commissioned by the Traverse Theatre)
- Monster (2002, opera libretto for Sally Beamish and Scottish Opera)
[edit] Bibliography
- Bernard Sellin (coord.), Voices from Modern Scotland: Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, CRINI (Centre de Recherche sur les Identités Nationales et l'Interculturalité), Nantes, 2007, 143 p., ISBN 2-916424-10-5.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- http://www.galloway.1to1.org/Index.html Janice Galloway Archive - the "official" website
- Janice Galloway at Contemporary Writers includes a "Critical Perspective" section
