Jane Urquhart

Jane Urquhart ( born June 21, 1949 in Little Long Lac, Geraldton, Ontario) is one of the most successful Canadian writers of our time.

In northern Ontario, north of Thunder Bay, born Urquhart grew up in Toronto and attended the private girls' school Havergal College. She went to Vancouver at the junior college, then attended the University of Guelph. She earned her B. A. 1971 in English Literature. After the accidental death of her husband, the artist Paul Keele, she went back to university and made in 1975 with a BA in art history.

In addition to three volumes of poetry (I'm Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Palace, False Shuffles, and The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan ) the novels Fort ( 1995), overpainting (1997), In the maelstrom (2002) and The sculptors were ( in 2004 ) translated into German.

In 1992, her novel The hot tub, the first Canadian book, which won the prestigious French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger ( award for the best foreign book ). Your third story, Away, remained 132 weeks on the national Canadian bestseller list ( longer than any other Canadian book ) and won the 1994 Trillium Book Award.

Also in 1994 was awarded the Marian Engel price Urquhart, 1996, she was nominated for the International IMPAC Away with Dublin Literary Award in 1997, she received the Governor General's Award, Canada's most coveted literary award; Her work for the sculptor in 2003 she was nominated for the Booker Prize. She was also nominated several times for the Canadian literary awards Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Urquhart lives with her ​​second husband, Canadian artist Tony Urquhart and their daughter Emily in a small town in southwestern Ontario.

Works (selection)

  • The Whirlpool (1986); ( dt: In the maelstrom, customary v. Monika lard. )
  • Storm Glass (1987, short story)
  • Changing Heaven ( 1990); ( Eng.: The balloon driver, customary v. Berthold Radke. )
  • Away ( 1993); ( dt: Fort, customary v. Werner Richter. )
  • The Underworld Painter (1997); ( Eng.: overpainting, customary v. Peter Knecht. )
  • The Stone Carvers (2001); ( Eng.: The sculptor, customary v. Barbara damage.). Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3827000823rd
  • A Map of Glass (2005); ( Eng.: The Glass Map, customary v. Werner holes Lawrence. ).
  • Sanctuary Line, 2010. The Butterfly Tree, German by Barbara damage. Bloomsbury Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8270-1063-6.
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