Janette Turner Hospital

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

Turner 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

Turner 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

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,^[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

• 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

• 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

• "Missing : in search of missing links". Fryer Folios. 12 (1). University of Queensland Library: 10–21. December 2019.