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).[1]

Early life and education

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

Career

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Her books are published in multiple translations.[4]

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 is currently Visiting Writer-in-Residence in the MFA program at Columbia University.[5][6]

Honours and awards

Turner Hospital was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Queensland, Australia, for "services to Australian Literature".[7] 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

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Novels

• The ivory swing. 1982.
• 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)[9]
• The Claimant (2014)

Short story collections

• 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

Articles

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

References

Citations

Sources

External links

• Official website
• 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)