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Her novel Oyster was a finalist for the Miles Franklin Award, the National Book Council Banjo Award, and Canada’s Trillium Award. It was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”, and one of the Observer’s Best Books of the Year in the UK.
Due Preparations for the Plague won the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction and the Davitt Award for “Best Crime Novel by an Australian woman in 2003”. It was also shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s Christina Stead Award for Fiction.
In 2003 Janette Turner Hospital received the Patrick White Award for lifetime literary achievement.
For several years, Janette has held an ongoing position as Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Queensland.
Janette Turner Hospital holds an endowed chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of South Carolina.
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Excerpts from the poetry of Jalīl al-Dīn Rūmī are from Rūmī Poet and Mystic, translated by Reynold A Nicholson (thanks to Oneworld Publications).
Many thanks to the following: Janette Turner Hospital and the Australian Literary Review, for permission to reproduce the article ‘Orpheus transcendent’; to the estate of Czeslaw Milosz and to Robert Hass, for permission to use excerpts from ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’; and to Harlan Greene, for permission to reproduce his review of Orpheus Lost.
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