Janette Turner Hospital (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Although Janette Turner Hospital’s short stories have been widely praised, she is probably best known for her novels. Hospital has also written a crime thriller, A Very Proper Death (1990), under the pseudonym Alex Juniper.

Achievements

Janette Turner Hospital’s short story “Waiting” won a first short-story award, presented by Atlantic Monthly; her first novel, The Ivory Swing, won Canada’s Seal First Novel Award, presented by Seal Books. She has also received a gold medal from the Canadian National Magazine...

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