Jane Urquhart

JANE URQUHART, one of Canada's best loved writers, was born in the north (in Little Longlac, Ontario), and grew up in Northumberland County and Toronto. She is the author of eight internationally acclaimed novels, which have received Le prix du meilleur livre �tranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; the Trillium Award; and the Governor General's Award, and have been finalists or longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; the Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction...See more

JANE URQUHART, one of Canada's best loved writers, was born in the north (in Little Longlac, Ontario), and grew up in Northumberland County and Toronto. She is the author of eight internationally acclaimed novels, which have received Le prix du meilleur livre �tranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; the Trillium Award; and the Governor General's Award, and have been finalists or longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; the Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; the Orange Prize; The Giller Prize; the Booker Prize; and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, among others. See less