Jane Urquhart
Jane Urquhart
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Full Name and Common Aliases
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Jane Urquhart is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.
Birth and Death Dates
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Born on May 17, 1948, Jane Urquhart continues to be an active member of the literary community.
Nationality and Profession(s)
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Urquhart is a Canadian national, known for her work in multiple genres: novels, short stories, essays, and poetry.
Early Life and Background
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Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Urquhart's family moved frequently during her childhood. Her father was an engineer, which influenced her interest in the technical aspects of writing. She developed a love for literature from a young age and began writing seriously while still at school.
Urquhart holds a BA degree from York University and later earned a MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. These educational endeavors helped shape her writing style and provided a strong foundation for her future works.
Major Accomplishments
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Jane Urquhart has received numerous awards and honors throughout her career, including:
The Governor General's Award for English-language fiction (1993) for Changing Heaven
The Harbourfront Festival Prize (2007)
The Toronto Arts Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature (2011)Notable Works or Actions
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Some of Urquhart's notable works include:
The Underpainter (1997), a novel that explores the intersection of art and science, which earned her the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.
Changing Heaven (1993) - another novel that was shortlisted for the Giller Prize
The Night Stag (2001) - a historical novel set during World War I
Impact and Legacy
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Jane Urquhart has made significant contributions to Canadian literature. Her writing style, which often blends elements of history, science, and art, has captivated readers worldwide.
Urquhart's work is known for its lyrical prose, intricate plotting, and multi-layered characters. These characteristics have earned her a reputation as one of Canada's most accomplished writers.
Why They Are Widely Quoted or Remembered
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Jane Urquhart's writing has been widely praised by critics, scholars, and readers alike. Her unique blend of genres and her ability to craft engaging stories have made her a beloved figure in the literary world.
Urquhart continues to be an active member of the Canadian literary community, regularly participating in festivals, workshops, and readings.
Quotes by Jane Urquhart
They represent the most dangerous kind of shape changers: those who cannot see, because of darkness beyond the gesture of the moment.
What do you do with everything that is cut away?” she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life...
Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn’t completely used up your body.
Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.
Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another.
What do you do with everything that is cut away?" she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life...
The string of bright beads, he had told her, were to remind her of the twenty brightest days they had spent together, and a promise of twenty more, and then twenty more, infinitely. Even in old age she would be able to call to mind the sound of the word "infinitely", the music it made, coloured by the slight Irish accent in his mouth - a word that whether shouted, sung, or spoken, sounded always like a tender whisper.