Janette Turner Hospital papers
Collection
Papers in this collection include manuscripts for Due Preparations for the Plague, Orpheus Lost and the short story collection North of Nowhere South of Loss. The collection is also made up of extensive correspondence between colleges and friends; publishing contracts for most of JTH's works; reviews of her works and published short stories, essays and papers. Further there is a significant portion of the collection containing material collected during her time as a professor at the University of South Carolina where she distinguished herself as a writer, teacher and contributing member of the literary community there. This portion of the collection includes teaching materials, correspondence from students and colleagues and papers relating to the free literature course she created for the wider Colombia community - Caught in the Creative Act.
Born in 1942, Dr Janette Turner Hospital is an internationally acclaimed novelist and short story writer who spent her school and university years in Brisbane. She has taught literature in universities in Australia, Canada, England, France and the United States returning, in 2019, to live permanently in Brisbane. Her novels and short stories have been translated into 12 languages in 20 countries. Janette’s distinguished reputation has been established through a number of literary awards and nominations, among them the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, (2003), the Patrick White Award for lifetime literary achievement (2003) and the Steele Rudd Award for best collection of short stories of the year (2012). In 2003 then Professor Turner Hospital was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Queensland, for “services to Australian Literature”.
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