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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 | |
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| 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 |
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]
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]
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.
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