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 US, principally Boston, Kingston and Columbia.

Early life and education

Turner was born in Melbourne and grew up in Queensland. She studied at the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers College, gaining a BA in 1965. She holds an MA from Queen's University, Canada, 1973.

Career

Her books are published in multiple translations.
Turner Hospital also teaches literature and creative writing and has been writer-in-residence at universities in Australia, Canada, England and the US.
She is currently Visiting Writer-in-Residence in the MFA program at Columbia University.

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 Fiction
and for the Melbourne AGE Book of the Year Award for Fiction.

Novels