Over two years on the best seller lists. Six internationally acclaimed novels . What do you have to do to get some recognition around here?
Canadian author Jane Urquhart has some profile now but it's relatively recent.
Like many authors she wrote at the kitchen table for quite some time. When her third novel Away swam to the top of the best seller lists in 1993, audiences and reviewers finally learned how to spell her name. Yet that initial recognition had a price. Wanting to move on to other territory Urquhart's next book, The Underpainter, was met with reader disappointment when it had no "Irish" in it. Still it won the Governor General's Award for Fiction and was followed by The Stone Carvers and A Map of Glass.
The latest book with her name on it is The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories. She claims to have had a lot of fun as editor of this project.
This past spring she was invited to the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal, where she was interviewed about her life and her career.
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