Jane Urquhart
Novelist, Author
1949 –
Who is Jane Urquhart?
Jane Urquhart, Order of Canada OC is a Canadian novelist and poet born in Little Long Lac, Ontario. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her evocative style which blends history with the present day. Her first novel, The Whirlpool, gained her international recognition when she became the first Canadian to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. Her subsequent novels were even more successful. Away, published in 1993, won the Trillium Award and was a national bestseller. In 1997, her fourth novel, The Underpainter, won the Governor General's Literary Award.
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- Born
- Jun 21, 1949
Ontario - Spouses
- Paul Keele
(1968 - )
- Paul Keele
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- University of Guelph
- Havergal College
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on July 23, 2013
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