Janice Galloway
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Janice Galloway (born 1955 in Saltcoats, Scotland) is a Scottish writer of short stories and novels.
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Biography
She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. She had a sister named Nora (d. 2000). Her parents separated when she was four and her father died when she was six. She read Music and English at Glasgow University. She then worked as a school teacher for ten years before turning to writing.
She has been writer in residence at four prisons in Scotland. She was also the Times Literary Supplement Research Fellow at the British Library in 1999. Her awards include: MIND/Allan Lane Award (for The Trick is to Keep Breathing), the McVitie's Prize (for Foreign Parts), the E.M. Forster Award (presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters), the Creative Scotland Award and the Saltire Book of the Year (for Clara).
Ms. Galloway currently lives in Lanarkshire with her son.
[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989)
- Foreign Parts (1994)
- Clara (2002) (based on the life of Clara Schumann)
[edit] Collections of short stories
- Blood (1991)
- Where You Find It (1996)
and widely anthologised in collections since 1990.
[edit] Poetry
- Boy Book See (2002)
[edit] Other texts
- Pipelines (2000, prose and poetry text to accompany Anne Bevan's exhbition "undercovered")
- Rosengarten (2004, a book of prose and poetry, matched with an exhibition of obsretrical implements by Anne Bevan)
- Chute (1998, French play/monologue commissioned by the Traverse Theatre)
- Monster (2002, opera libretto for Sally Beamish and Scottish Opera)
[edit] External links
http://www.galloway.1to1.org/Index.html Janice Galloway Archive - the "official" website
Janice Galloway at www.contemporarywriters.com includes a "Critical Perspective" section
[edit] Bibliography
Bernard Sellin (coord.), Voices from Modern Scotland: Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, CRINI (Centre de Recherche sur les Identités Nationales et l'Interculturalité), Nantes, 2007, 143 p., ISBN 2-916424-10-5.
