Janette Turner Hospital

Professor
Carolina Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

Office: 504 Humanities Office Building

(803) 777-2186
email: hospitjt@mailbox.sc.edu

website:www.janetteturnerhospital.com
Director, Caught in the Creative Act
              www.cas.sc.edu/CICA

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 439O: Caught in the Creative Act
• ENGL 610 & 611:  Reading and Writing the Novel 
• ENGL 602: Reading and Writing the Short Story

Novels:

Forthcoming in 2007: Orpheus Lost

Short Story Collections:

Foreign editions:

Foreign editions:  Australia, UK, Canada, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Hindi, Japanese.

“One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today.”  Times Literary Supplement

As subject matter (most recent articles only):

Subject entry in Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, ed. Lorna Sage, Cambridge UP, l999.
Bronwyn Davies, (In)scribing Body /landscape Relations, Walnut Creek, Alta Mira Press, spring 2000 ; Chapter 10: "Subjection and the eclipsing of the constitutive power of discourse: the writing of Janette Turner Hospital"
Sue Lovell, Mediating Desire:  Subjectivities and Narratives in the Fiction of Janette Turner Hospital, PhD dissertation, University of Queensland, Australia, 2000

Current Literary Appointments

Editorial Advisory Board of Wasafiri: a Journal of Caribbean, African, Asian, and Associated Literatures in English
Judge, Novella Proze, Faulkner Society, 2004.

Selected Awards

"Atlantic First" , The Atlantic Monthly, USA, l978
First Prize, Magazine Fiction,  Foundation for the Advancement of  Canadian Letters, l982
Seal First Novel Award ($50,000) for THE IVORY SWING,  Canada, l982
Named in Canada's Best Ten Younger Writers, l986

DISLOCATIONS:
l988 Fiction Award, Fellowship of Australian Writers

CHARADES:
finalist for Australia's two major literary awards, the Miles Franklin Award and the National Book Council award, l989

ISOBARS:
finalist for the Trillium Award, Canada

THE LAST MAGICIAN:
listed in Publishers' Weekly "Best 50 Books of l992" and "Best 16 Novels of l992";
New York Times' "Most Notable Books of l992" list;
finalist for Miles Franklin Award, Australia;
finalist for the Trillium Award, Canada

OYSTER:
New York Times' "Editors’ Choice"  and Notable Books List
finalist for Australia’s Miles Franklin and National Book Awards
finalist for Canada’s Trillium Award

DUE PREPARATIONS FOR THE PLAGUE:
Winner of Australia's prestigious Patrick White Award, 2003
Winner of QUEENSLAND PREMIER's LITERARY AWARD, 2003
Winner of Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for best crime novel, 2004
Listed in "Best Books of the Year" by Sydney Morning Herald, Melborune Age, Toronto Globe & Mail, Montreal Gazette, London Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and London Times

Forthcoming and Recent Readings & Invitations to Literary Festivals

• Keynote speaker, Byron Bay Literary Festival, Australia, August 2006
• Keynote speaker, “Medicine and Literature” Conference, International Association for Medical Humanities, Byron Bay, Australia, July 2006
• Festival du Livre, Montpellier, France, May 2006
• National Library of France, Paris, May 17, 2006
• Colgate University, Hamilton NY, April 2006
• International Conference on Literatures in English, University of Innsbruck, Austria, July 2005
• Learned Societies, Canada; Univ of Western Ontario; keynote speaker, plenary session, May 2005Harbourfront International Festival of Authors, Toronto, Oct 2004
• Celebrity Writers' Series, Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Canada, July 2004
• Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Postcolonial Literatures Forum, Monash University, Melbourne, May 2004
• Dis/Locations in Contemporary Literature, International Conference, Department of English, USC, April 2004
• Adelaide Festival, International Festival of Authors, March 2004
• European Association of Australian Literary Studies, University of Aveiro, Portugal, Sept. 2003
• Sydney International Writers' Festival, May 2003
• Sixth International Conference on the Short Story, Univ. of Iowa, Oct 2000
• British Australian Studies Association, University of London, Sept 2000
• Northlake Community College Writers' Festival, Dallas TX, April 3-4, 2000
• International Writers'  Series, St Lawrence University, Canton, NY, March 6-7, 2000
• Fifth European Association for Studies on Australia, University of Toulouse le Mirail, Toulouse, France, Sept 28-Oct 3, l999
• Faulkner Society 'Words and Music Festival', New Orleans, September 22-26, 1999
• Prague Writers' Festival, Czech Republic, April 12-16, l999;  Readings at the universities in Budapest and Vienna, April 1999 (as part of Prague Festival Tour)