Hospital, Janette Turner (1942–)
Hospital, Janette Turner (1942–)
Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Born 1942 in Australia; Queen's University, MA in literature.
Worked as librarian at Harvard University; immigrated to Canada (1971); writings, which often deal with alienation and cultural dislocation, include The Ivory Swing (1982), The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (1983), Borderline (1985), Dislocations (1986), Charades (1989), Isobars (1990) and Oyster (1998).
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