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]
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 |
Early life and education
editTurner 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
editTurner 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
editTurner 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
editNovels
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- ^ 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
- ^ a b "Janette Turner Hospital". Britannica. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291–321
- ^ "Austlit — Janette Turner Hospital". Austlit. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
- ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". University of South Carolina. Archived from the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291–321.
- ^ Birnbaum, Robert (11 November 2003). "Janette Turner Hospital - Identity Theory". www.identitytheory.com. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- ^ a b "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
- ^ Nielson, Lucy. "Janette Turner Hospital weaves a riddling spell in The Claimant". Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ University of Queensland alumni site: "Janette Turner Hospital, author - Alumni & Community". Archived from the original on 13 September 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
- ^ David Callahan. Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009
Sources
edit- 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); 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]