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==Works== [[File:The Whirlpool by Jane Urquhart.jpg|thumb|''The Whirlpool'']] Urquhart is the author of seven internationally acclaimed novels including: ''[[The Whirlpool (Jane Urquhart novel)|The Whirlpool]]'' (entitled ''Niagara'' in France), the first Canadian book to win France's prestigious [[Prix du Meilleur livre etranger]] (Best Foreign Book Award);<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mcclelland.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771086519|title=Books - McClelland & Stewart|website=Penguin Random House Canada|access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> ''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 (book)|No Love Lost]]'' for The New Canadian Library. Urquhart has received the [[Marian Engel Award]] and the Harbourfront Festival Prize, and is a [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres|Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] in France and is an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]]. [[File:Niagara by Jane Urquhart.jpg|thumb|alt=Niagara by Jane Urquhart|French edition of ''The Whirlpool'']] Urquhart has received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities, including the University of Toronto (2000),<ref>{{cite web |title=Author Urquhart Gets Honorary Degree |url=https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/alumni-donors/jane-urquhart-henry-louis-gates-jr-honorary-degree/ |website=magazine.utoronto.ca |date=24 March 2000 |publisher=U of Toronto |access-date=2021-12-14}}</ref> the Royal Military College (2007),<ref>{{cite web |title=Royal Military College of Canada Honorary Degree Recipients |url=https://www.rmc-cmr.ca/en/royal-military-college-canada-honorary-degree-recipients |access-date=2021-12-14 |website=Royal Military College of Canada |date=19 July 2016 |publisher=}}</ref> and Carleton University, Ottawa (2016).<ref>{{cite web |date=2016 |title=Honorary Degrees Awarded Since 1954 |url=https://carleton.ca/senate/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations/honorary-degrees-awarded-since-1954/ |access-date=2021-12-14 |website=Carleton University |publisher=}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Jane Urquhart |url=http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/urquhart/ |access-date=29 July 2018 |website=Canadian Poetry Online - University of Toronto Libraries |archive-date=24 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524212504/http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/urquhart/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''In Winter I Get Up at Night'' was longlisted for the 2024 [[Giller Prize]].<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/books/12-canadian-books-make-2024-longlist-for-100k-giller-prize-1.7311839 "12 Canadian books make 2024 longlist for $100K Giller Prize"]. [[CBC Books]], September 4, 2024.</ref> ===Novels=== *''[[The Whirlpool (Jane Urquhart novel)|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}} *''In Winter I Get Up at Night'', 2024 ===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 (magazine)|Brick]]'' v. 35 (Mar. 1989): 37-38.<ref name=":0" /> * "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.<ref name=":0" /> * "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 (book)|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: [[Awa Press|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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