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'''Janette Turner Hospital''' (née '''Turner''') (born 12 November 1942) is an ]-born ] and ] ]. She is also a teacher of literature and creative writing, has often been a writer-in-residence, and is the Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the ]. '''Janette Turner Hospital''' (née '''Turner''') (born 12 November 1942) is an ]-born ] and ] ]. She is also a teacher of literature and creative writing, has often been a writer-in-residence.


==Life== ==Life==
Janette Turner was born in ], ] to Pentecostal Christian parents. Her family moved to ] in 1950. There was no television or radio in the house when she was young, and her family "had a Biblical metaphor for every occasion".<ref name = "Sibree">Sibree (2007)</ref> She discovered a new world of words and language when she started school.<ref name = "Sibree"/> Janette Turner was born in ], ] to Pentecostal Christian parents.


She studied at the ] and ], gaining a ] in 1965. She later taught in North Queensland and ]. In 1999, she was accepted a chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English, ]. She announced her resignation on ], ].
She studied at the ] and ], gaining a ] in 1965. She later taught in North Queensland and ]. She married Clifford Hospital, a theologian and scholar, in 1965. The couple moved to ], in the ], in 1967, for her husband to take a Harvard Fellowship. They later moved to ], ], ]. During these years, she worked as a librarian at Harvard University, and then undertook her Master of Arts in medieval literature at ] in Canada.<ref name = "Sibree"/> They also spent a year, 1977/78, in southern India where she wrote her short story ''Waiting'', which she later expanded in the novel ''The Ivory Swing''.<ref></ref> She has said: "My life has been very geographically dislocated, and a way of dealing with that is passion for the physical landscape. But I also think I just learned very quickly to be an acute observer of social and political systems".<ref name = "Sibree"/>

In 1999, she was accepted a chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English, ], succeeding ] winning poet ].

Hospital has held writer-in-residence positions at the ] in Boston, the ] and ] in Melbourne. She divides her time between Canada, the United States and Queensland.

==Writing career==
Her first piece of fiction, a short story titled "Waiting", was published in '']'' in 1978 and received an 'Atlantic First' citation.

While her novels tend to centre around a central question, her 2007 novel ''Orpheus Lost'' explores several questions relating including how individuals might react to discovering a terrorist in their family, the balancing individual rights with national security, and individual accountability for government actions.<ref name = "Sibree"/>

Hospital describes the driving philosophy behind her novels as follows: "I despair, therefore I insist on hope ... I do believe in redemptive moments I no longer have a safe structure in any traditional sense, but I do believe that redemptive moments exist and that deeply flawed human beings are capable of great and redemptive moments toward other human beings. And that's what I celebrate, For me, that's what the books are about".<ref name = "Sibree"/>


== Bibliography == == Bibliography ==

Revision as of 18:48, 28 October 2009

Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born 12 November 1942) is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer. She is also a teacher of literature and creative writing, has often been a writer-in-residence.

Life

Janette Turner was born in Melbourne, Australia to Pentecostal Christian parents.

She studied at the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers College, gaining a BA in 1965. She later taught in North Queensland and Brisbane. In 1999, she was accepted a chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English, University of South Carolina. She announced her resignation on October 27, 2009.

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Awards and nominations

  • 1982 - Seal Award
  • 1992 - New York Times Notable Book of the Year for The Last Magician
  • 1998 - New York Times Notable Book of the Year for Oyster
  • 2003 - Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award for Due Preparations For The Plague
  • 2003 - Davitt Award for best crime novel of the year by an Australian woman for Due Preparations For The Plague
  • 2003 - Patrick White Award for literature

Several of her novels have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award: Charade in 1989, The Last Magician in 1993, and Oyster in 1997.

External links

Notes

References

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