Janice Galloway

Janice Galloway ( born 1955 in Saltcoats, Ayrshire ) is a Scottish writer. The Guardian described it as "one of the UK 's finest fiction writers". Among her works, novels, short stories, plays and community projects can be found with musicians and visual artists.

Life

Janice Galloway was the second child of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride (her much older sister Nora, called in This is Not About Me Cora died in 2000). Janice grew up in precarious situations; parents separated when she was four, and two years later his father died. She studied music and English at the University of Glasgow and worked for ten years as a teacher. Her first short story she wrote for the Edinburgh Review. Your since published works have received numerous awards, including the " E. M. Forster Award "from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( for The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Blood and foreign parts). She works as a freelance writer and mother of a son in Lanarkshire.

Works (selection)

Novels

• The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Edinburgh, 1989, The German survivor, Frankfurt 1993.
• Foreign Parts, London 1994, German Foreign Countries, Frankfurt 1996.
• Clara, London 2002 ( about Clara Schumann).

Short stories

• Blood, London 1991, German love of changing environment, Frankfurt 1994.
• Where you find it, London 1996.

Other

• Boy book lake, Edinburgh 2002 ( prose poems).
• This is Not About Me, London 2008 ( autobiography).