Janette Turner Hospital

Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born November 12, 1942) is an Australian novelist and short story writer.

Born in in Melbourne, Australia, her family moved to Queensland in 1950 where she undertook her education at Queensland University and Kelvin Grove Teachers College with a BA in 1965. She later taught in Queensland and Brisbane, married Clifford Hospital in 1965. The couple moved to Boston, in the United States, and then on to Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her first piece of fiction, a short story titled "Waiting", was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1978 and received an 'Atlantic First' citation. In 1999, she was accepted a chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English, University of South Carolina, succeeding Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Dickey.

Hospital has held writer-in-residence positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, the University of Sydney and La Trobe University in Melbourne. She divides her time between Canada, the United States and Queensland.

Several of her novels have been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award: Charade in 1989, The Last Magician in 1993, and Oyster in 1997.

She won the Patrick White Award for literature in 2003.