Janette Turner Hospital

Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 12 November 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the US, 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

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 US (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

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 (2012)

Notes

1. Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital".Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975–2000.Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153–163
2. Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital".Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975–2000.Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153–163
3. "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291–321
4. "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
5. "Janette Turner Hospital". University of South Carolina. 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. University of Queensland alumni site: http://www.alumni.uq.edu.au/janette-turner-hospital-author
8. "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
9. David Callahan. Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009

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

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)