Author Janette Turner Hospital will lead a reading and discussion of her latest book, Orpheus Lost, on Friday, Nov. 9, at 2:30 p.m. in the Spencer House Great Room. Turner Hospital is the Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. This event is sponsored by the English Department and Office of the President and is free and open to the public. Those wanting to attend are encouraged to read Orpheus Lost beforehand so they can join in the discussion.
According to publisher HarperCollins: "Achingly sensual, effortlessly lyrical, Janette Turner Hospital's dazzling Orpheus Lost is a powerful and disturbing novel. It is a love story on a grand scale that spans America, Australia and the Middle East. It is also an exploration of the ghastly side effects of terrorism and of the nightmarish mistakes of war time from which the lovers must struggle to extricate themselves."
Janette Turner Hospital grew up in the northeastern state of Queensland, Australia. Her first novel, The Ivory Swing, set in the village in South India where she lived in l977, won Canada's $50,000 Seal Award in 1982. The Last Magician, her fifth novel, was listed by Publishers' Weekly as one of the 12 best novels published in 1992 in the USA and was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." Oyster, her sixth novel, was a finalist for Australia's Miles Franklin Prize Award and for Canada's Trillium Award, and in England it was listed in "Best Books of the Year" by The Observer, which noted "Oyster is a tour de force… Turner Hospital is one of the best female novelists writing in English." In the USA, Oyster was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year."
Turner Hospital holds an endowed chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and in 2003 received the Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences, conferred by the university for the most significant faculty contribution (research, publication, teaching and service) in a given year.
According to publisher HarperCollins: "Achingly sensual, effortlessly lyrical, Janette Turner Hospital's dazzling Orpheus Lost is a powerful and disturbing novel. It is a love story on a grand scale that spans America, Australia and the Middle East. It is also an exploration of the ghastly side effects of terrorism and of the nightmarish mistakes of war time from which the lovers must struggle to extricate themselves."
Janette Turner Hospital grew up in the northeastern state of Queensland, Australia. Her first novel, The Ivory Swing, set in the village in South India where she lived in l977, won Canada's $50,000 Seal Award in 1982. The Last Magician, her fifth novel, was listed by Publishers' Weekly as one of the 12 best novels published in 1992 in the USA and was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." Oyster, her sixth novel, was a finalist for Australia's Miles Franklin Prize Award and for Canada's Trillium Award, and in England it was listed in "Best Books of the Year" by The Observer, which noted "Oyster is a tour de force… Turner Hospital is one of the best female novelists writing in English." In the USA, Oyster was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year."
Turner Hospital holds an endowed chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and in 2003 received the Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences, conferred by the university for the most significant faculty contribution (research, publication, teaching and service) in a given year.
