Janice Galloway

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Janice Galloway (* 1955 in Saltcoats , Ayrshire ) is a Scottish writer. The Guardian called them "one of the UK's finest fiction writers". Her works include novels , short stories , plays, and joint projects with musicians and visual artists.

Life

Janice Galloway was the second child of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride (their much older sister Nora, named Cora in This is Not About Me , died in 2000). Janice grew up in precarious circumstances; the parents separated when she was four, two years later the father died. She studied music and English at the University of Glasgow and worked as a teacher for ten years. She wrote her first short story for the Edinburgh Review . Her works that have been published since then have received numerous awards, including the “ EM Forster Award” from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (for The Trick is to Keep Breathing , Blood and Foreign Parts ). She lives in Lanarkshire as a freelance writer and mother of one son .

Works (selection)

Novels

  • The Trick is to Keep Breathing , Edinburgh 1989, German Die Überlebenskünstlerin , Frankfurt 1993.
  • Foreign Parts , London 1994, German foreign countries , Frankfurt 1996.
  • Clara , London 2002 (about Clara Schumann).

Short stories

  • Blood , London 1991, German love in a changing environment , Frankfurt 1994.
  • Where you find it , London 1996.

Other

  • boy book see , Edinburgh 2002 (prose poems).
  • This is Not About Me , London 2008 (autobiography).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Guardian ("Comment & Features") of September 12, 2008.
  2. ↑ The biographical data correspond to the information in the English language Wikipedia , the reference to the precarious situation refers to an article in the Sunday Times ("Scotland News") from 7 September 2008.
  3. ^ So in Janice Galloway: A Web Archive (Background) ( Memento from May 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ A more detailed list of prices can be found on Janice Galloway: A Web Archive (Bio) ( Memento from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Galloway, Janice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Saltcoats , Ayrshire