- Janice Galloway
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name = Janice Galloway
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birthdate = 1955
birthplace =Saltcoats ,Ayrshire ,Scotland
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occupation = novelist, short story writer
nationality = Scottish
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period = contemporary
genre = general fiction
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notableworks = The Trick is To Keep Breathing (1989)
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awards = MIND Book of the Year, Allen Lane Award, E. M. Forster Award
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portaldisp =Janice Galloway (born 1955 in
Saltcoats ,Scotland ) is a Scottish writer of short stories and novels.=Biography=
She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. She had a sister named Cora (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 theBritish 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.
Works
Novels
*"The Trick is to Keep Breathing" (1989)
*"Foreign Parts" (1994)
*"Clara" (2002) (based on the life ofClara Schumann )Collections of short stories
*"Blood" (1991)
*"Where You Find It" (1996)and widely anthologised in collections since 1990.
Poetry
*"Boy Book See" (2002)
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)External links
http://www.galloway.1to1.org/Index.html Janice Galloway Archive - the "official" website
contemporary writers|id=39 includes a "Critical Perspective" section
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.
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