Janette Turner Hospital

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Janette Turner Hospital
BornJanette Turner
1942
Melbourne, Victoria
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1976-
Notable worksDue Preparations for the Plague
Notable awards2004 Davitt Award

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] She also uses the penname "Alex Juniper". [2]

Early life and education[edit]

Turner was born in Melbourne on November 12th, 1942 [2] and grew up in Queensland. She studied at the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers College, gaining a BA in 1965.[3] She holds an MA from Queen's University, Canada, 1973.[4]

Career[edit]

Turner Hospital published her first story in "Atlantic Monthly" in 1978, and her first novel, The Ivory Swing, in 1982.[5]

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.[6][7]

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.[8]

Her books, such as Oyster and Due Preparations for the Plague, are published in multiple translations.[9]

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.[10]

Honours and awards[edit]

Turner Hospital was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Queensland, Australia, for "services to Australian Literature".[11] She has won a number of international literary awards,[12] 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)[13]
  • 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. ^ 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. ^ Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital".Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975–2000.Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153–163
  4. ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291–321
  5. ^ "Austlit — Janette Turner Hospital". Austlit. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". University of South Carolina. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  7. ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291–321.
  8. ^ Birnbaum, Robert (11 November 2003). "Janette Turner Hospital - Identity Theory". www.identitytheory.com. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  9. ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
  10. ^ Nielson, Lucy. "Janette Turner Hospital weaves a riddling spell in The Claimant". Sydney Morning Herald.
  11. ^ University of Queensland alumni site: "Janette Turner Hospital, author - Alumni & Community". Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
  12. ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
  13. ^ David Callahan. Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009

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