Janette Turner Hospital

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Janette Turner Hospital
Born Janette Turner
1942
Melbourne , Victoria
Occupation Novelist
Language English
Nationality Australian
Years active 1976-
Notable works Due Preparations for the Plague
Notable awards 2004 Davitt Award

Janette Turner Hospital (nee 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] She also uses the penname "Alex Juniper". [2]

Early life and education [ edit ]

Turner was born in Melbourne on November 12, 1942 [2] and grew up in Queensland . She studied at the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers College , gaining a BA in 1965. [1] She holds an MA from Queen's University, Canada , 1973. [3]

Career [ edit ]

Turner Hospital published her first story in "Atlantic Monthly" in 1978, and her first novel, The Ivory Swing , in 1982. [4]

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. [5] [6]

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. [7]

Her books, such as Oyster and Due Preparations for the Plague , are published in multiple translations. [8]

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. [9]

Honours and awards [ edit ]

Turner Hospital was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Queensland, Australia, for "services to Australian Literature". [10] She has won a number of international literary awards, [8] 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 [ edit ]

Novels [ edit ]

  • 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 [ edit ]

  • 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

Selected articles [ edit ]

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

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital". Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975?2000 .Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153?163
  2. ^ a b "Janette Turner Hospital" . Britannica . Retrieved 21 March 2024 .
  3. ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism , Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291?321
  4. ^ "Austlit ? Janette Turner Hospital" . Austlit . Retrieved 8 May 2024 .
  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. ^ a b "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005 . Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
  9. ^ Nielson, Lucy. "Janette Turner Hospital weaves a riddling spell in The Claimant" . Sydney Morning Herald .
  10. ^ University of Queensland alumni site: "Janette Turner Hospital, author - Alumni & Community" . Archived from the original on 13 September 2009 . Retrieved 27 November 2009 .
  11. ^ David Callahan. Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital . St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009

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External links [ edit ]

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