WORKS

POETRY

Some Other Garden. Toronto: M&S, 2000.

The Little Flowers of Mme de Montespan. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1984.

False Shuffles. Victoria: Porcépic, 1982.

I am Walking in the Garden of his Imaginary Palace: Eleven Poems for Le Notre. Toronto: Aya Press, 1982.

OTHER WORK

The Stone Carvers. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001.

The Underpainter. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997.

Away. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1993.

Changing Heaven. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990.

Storm Glass. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1987.

The Whirlpool. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986.

CRITICISM

“An Interview with Jane Urquhart.” Canadian Fiction Magazine 55 (1986): 23-40.

Bemrose, John. “A writer’s creative trances: Jane Urquhart Gets Joyfully Lost in her Stories.” Maclean’s (Toronto Edition), 110.37 (1997): 85.

Bonner, Margaret O’Shea. “Finding Your Place in the Story: An Interview with Jane Urquhart.” New Quarterly: New Directions in Canadian Writing 88 (2003): 71-90.

Canton, Jeffrey. “Ghosts in the Landscape: An Interview with Jane Urquhart.” Paragraph 13.2 (1991): 3-5.

Ferri, Laura F. “Atmosphere: An Interview with Jane Urquhart.” Descant 31.2 (2000): 146-156.

Hancock, Geoff. “An Interview with Jane Urquhart.” Canadian Fiction Magazine 55 (1986): 23-40.
Marto, Nancy. “Jane Urquhart.” New Fiction 19 (1995): 37-41.

Naves, Elaine K. “Home from Away: Jane Urquhart Walks the Landscapes of her Past and her Imagination and Turns them into Compelling Fiction.” Interview with Jane Urquhart. Books In Canada 24.4 (1995): 7-13.

Ritts, Morton. “Dateline: Port Hope. Wielding a Helpful Pen: Jane Urquhart, the Library’s Writer-in-Residence.” Macleans 101.22 May 23 (1988): T1-T2.

Sherman, Geraldine. “Urquhart’s Victorian Fascination with the Elements.” Quill & Quire 56.1 (1990): 24.

Slopen, Beverley. “Jane Urquhart: Writing for Art’s Sake.” Publishers Weekly 244.48 (1997): 48-49.

Smith, Stephen. “After Away: Jane Urquhart Uncovers the Danger in Art, in Writing and in Life.” Quill & Quire 63.6 (1997): 1,18+.

Sykes, Katie. “Jane Urquhart: Inside Other Worlds.” Interview with Jane Urquhart. Quarry 43.2 (1994): 54-62.

Wylie, Herb. “Jane Urquhart: Confessions of a Historical Geographer.” Essays on Canadian Writing 81 (2004): 58-83.

AWARDS

1994: Marian Engel Prize

BIOGRAPHY
Jane Urquhart was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario, in 1949. She attended school in both Toronto and Guelph, and has received several honourary degrees from Canadian universities. To date, Urquhart has published three books of poetry, one collection of short fiction, and five novels. She has been awarded with both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Governor General's Award for her fiction. She and her husband, artist Tony Urquhart, live in southwestern Ontario. She often travels to her cottage in Ireland to write.

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