Jane Urquhart

CBC Books | Posted: June 27, 2018 9:14 PM | Last Updated: August 7, 2018

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Caption: Jane Urquhart is the author of the novel The Night Stages. (Elsa Trillat)

Jane Urquhart is a novelist and poet. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Urquhart has written seven critically acclaimed novels. In 1994, she received the Marian Engel Award, now known as Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award. Her debut The Whirlpool received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France. The 1993 speculative fiction novel Away won the Trillium Award, was a finalist for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a contender in Canada Reads 2013, when it was defended by Charlotte Gray.

She received the Governor General's Literary Award in 1997 for The Underpainter. The novel was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The Stone Carvers was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, as well the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2001 and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She has also authored four poetry books and a short story collection entitled A Number of Things.

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Media Video | Archives : Jane Urquhart discusses writing the 2001 novel The Stone Carvers

Caption: Jane Urquhart talks about the origins of her novel The Stone Carvers, which tells the story of how the First World War affected one Canadian family, and the building of the Vimy memorial. Aired April 6, 2001 on CBC's Hot Type.