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 is also known to go by Alex Juniper. [2]
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]
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Her books are published in multiple translations.[ example needed] [5]
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 visited the Writer-in-Residence in the MFA program at Columbia University in 2010. [6] [7]
She has previously published six novels Oyster, The Last Magician, Charades, Borderline, Tiger in the Pit, and The Ivory Swing, as well as three story collections (Isobars, Dislocations, and Collected Stories). Her 2003 novel Due Preparations for the Plague received the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction. [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]
Turner 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, [11] 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.
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 is also known to go by Alex Juniper. [2]
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]
This article needs to be updated.(April 2019) |
Her books are published in multiple translations.[ example needed] [5]
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 visited the Writer-in-Residence in the MFA program at Columbia University in 2010. [6] [7]
She has previously published six novels Oyster, The Last Magician, Charades, Borderline, Tiger in the Pit, and The Ivory Swing, as well as three story collections (Isobars, Dislocations, and Collected Stories). Her 2003 novel Due Preparations for the Plague received the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction. [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]
Turner 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, [11] 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.