Janette Turner Hospital

Janette Turner Hospital grew up in Queensland and began her teaching career in remote Queensland high schools, but since her graduate studies she has taught in universities in Australia, Canada, England, France, and the United States.

Her first published short story appeared in the Atlantic Monthly (USA) where it won an "Atlantic First" citation in 1978. Her first novel, The Ivory Swing (set in the village in South India where she lived in l977) won Canada’s $50,000 Seal Award in l982. She lived for many years in Canada, and in 1986 she was listed as by the Toronto Globe & Mail as one of Canada′s "Ten Best Young Fiction...

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