Janette Turner Hospital
Janette Turner Hospital 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. She also uses the penname "Alex Juniper".
Early life and education
Turner was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 12 November 1942 and grew up in Queensland. She studied at the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers College, gaining a BA degree in 1965. She holds an MA degree from Queen's University, Canada, 1973.Career
Turner Hospital published her first story in Atlantic Monthly in 1978, and her first novel, The Ivory Swing, in 1982.She also teaches literature and creative writing and has been writer-in-residence at universities in Australia, Canada, England and the United States.
She visited the Writer-in-Residence in the MFA program at Columbia University in 2010.
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.
Her books, such as Oyster and Due Preparations for the Plague, are published in multiple translations.
She is known for her penchant for beginning books with intricate riddles, continuing this pattern with her 2014 novel The Claimant, which delves into the complexities of identity, class, and morality against the backdrop of a wealthy Vanderbilt family's fortune.
Honours and awards
Turner Hospital was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Queensland, Australia, for "services to Australian Literature". She has won a number of international literary awards, including the Steele Rudd Award for Best Collection of Short Stories, 2012. She was also a finalist for Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fictionand for the Melbourne Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction.
Novels
The Tiger in the Tiger Pit Borderline Charades A Very Proper Death, as Alex Juniper The Last Magician Oyster Due Preparations for the Plague Orpheus Lost- ''The Claimant''
Short story collections
Dislocations Isobars Collected Stories North of Nowhere, South of Loss*