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 (M*achusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South Carolina).

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Honours and awards
• 4 Bibliography
  • 4.1 Novels
  • 4.2 Short story collections
  • 4.3 Articles
• 5 References
  • 5.1 Citations
  • 5.2 Sources
• 6 External links

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. She holds an MA from Queen's University, Canada, 1973.

Career

Her books are published in multiple translations.

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.

Honours and awards

Turner Hospital was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Queensland, Australia, for "services to Australian Literature". She has won a number of international literary awards, 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 Fictionand 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)
• 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

• 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

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)