Dreams

Works

The Whirlpool

Urquhart is the author of seven internationally acclaimed novels including: The Whirlpool (entitled Niagara in France), the first Canadian book to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur livre etranger (Best Foreign Book Award);[12] Changing Heaven; Away, winner of the Trillium Award and a finalist for the prestigious International Dublin Literary Award; The Underpainter, winner of the Governor General's Award and a finalist for the Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; The Stone Carvers, which was a finalist for the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, and long listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2001; A Map of Glass, a finalist for a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, and Sanctuary Line, a finalist for the Giller Prize.

She is also the author of a collection of short fiction, Storm Glass, and four books of poetry, I Am Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Palace, False Shuffles, The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan, and Some Other Garden. Her work, which is published in many countries, has been translated into numerous foreign languages. She also wrote the biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery for the Penguin Extraordinary Canadians series and is the editor of the most recent Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, and she edited and introduced a collection of Alice Munro's love stories entitled No Love Lost for The New Canadian Library. Urquhart has received the Marian Engel Award and the Harbourfront Festival Prize, and is a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

French edition of The Whirlpool

Urquhart has received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities, including the University of Toronto (2000),[13] the Royal Military College (2007),[14] and Carleton University, Ottawa (2016).[15] She also has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University of Toronto. She has also given readings and lectures in Canada, Britain, Europe, the US, and Australia, has twice been a keynote speaker at the annual Canadian Congress of the Humanities, and has served on the Board of PEN Canada and on the Advisory Board for the Restoration of the Vimy Memorial. She has served on several international prize juries including that of the International Dublin IMPAC Award, the Giller Prize, and the American International Neustadt Award.

Her books have been published in many countries, including Holland, France, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, Australia, and The United States, and have been translated into several languages.[16]

Novels

  • The Whirlpool. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986. ISBN 9780771086878
  • Changing Heaven. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990. ISBN 978-0-87923-895-7
  • Fragment of a Novel in Progress. Ottawa: Magnum Bookstore, 1992
  • Away. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1993. ISBN 9780747516774
  • The Underpainter. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997. ISBN 9780771086649
  • The Stone Carvers. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001. ISBN 9780771086878
  • A Map of Glass. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005. ISBN 9780771087271
  • Sanctuary Line. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010. ISBN 9781596923669
  • The Night Stages. McClelland & Stewart, 2015. ISBN 9780771094422

Non-fiction

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Lucy Maud Montgomery. Penguin Canada, 2009. ISBN 978-0670066759
  • A Number of Things: Stories of Canada Told Through Fifty Objects. Toronto: Patrick Crean Editions, 2016. ISBN 978-1443432061

Short story anthology

  • Storm Glass. Erin, Ontario: The Porcupine's Quill, 1987. ISBN 9780889841062

Articles and other writing

  • "Afterword." As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories by Alistair MacLeod. New Canadian Library, 1986. ISBN 978-0771098826
  • "Introduction." In Transit by Mavis Gallant. Penguin, 2006. ISBN 9780143055037
  • "Night walk (Jane Urquhart remembers Ken Adachi)." Brick v. 35 (Mar. 1989): 37-38.[16]
  • "Familiar Roads Home: Second thoughts on rereading The Lost Salt Gift of Blood by Alistair MacLeod." The Globe and Mail (Metro edition). 4 May 1991, E: 1, E4.[16]
  • "Returning to the Village" Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology. Constance Rooke, editor. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994. ISBN 9780771069567
  • "Afterword." No Love Lost by Alice Munro. New Canadian Library, 2003. ISBN 9780771034817
  • "Introduction." The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories. Toronto: Penguin, 2007. ISBN 9780771034817
  • "Afterword." Emily Climbs by Lucy Maud Montgomery. New Canadian Library (2009). ISBN 9781770497481

Poetry

  • I'm Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Palace: Eleven Poems for Le Notre. Toronto: Aya Press, 1982. ISBN 9780920544259
  • False Shuffles. Victoria: Porcépic, 1982. Toronto: Aya Press, 1982. ISBN 9780888782045
  • The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1983. ISBN 9780889840492
  • Some Other Garden. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000. ISBN 9780771086694

Editor

  • The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories. Toronto: Penguin, 2007. ISBN 9780771034817

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