Janice Galloway
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Janice Galloway is a writer of novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti
She was the first Scottish Arts Council writer in residence to four prisons (HMPs Cornton Vale, Dungavel, Barlinnie and Polmont YOI) and was the Times Literary Supplement Research Fellow to the British 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, Saltire Book of the Year (for Clara) and the SMIT non-fiction Book of the Year for This is not about Me.
Janice Galloway currently lives in South Lanarkshire with her son, James, and husband, Jonathan.
She has written and presented three radio series for BBC Scotland (Life as a Man, Imagined Lives and Chopin's Scottish Swansong) and works extensively with musicians and visual artists including Sally Beamish, Anne Bevan, Michael Wolchover, Norman McBeath and Alasdair Nocolson. Her book Clara was recorded for the RNIB by the author in 2004.
In December 2008 she was a guest on Private Passions
, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3
.
Galloway wrote the glosses on Bronte's Shirley
and Eliot's Felix Holt and Middlemarch
in The Book of Prefaces
, edited by Alasdair Gray
.
and has been widely anthologised in collections since 1990.
Biography
She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. Her parents separated when she was four and her father died when she was six. Her sister Nora, sixteen years older, died in 2000. She read Music and English at Glasgow University, then worked as a school teacher for ten years before turning to writing.She was the first Scottish Arts Council writer in residence to four prisons (HMPs Cornton Vale, Dungavel, Barlinnie and Polmont YOI) and was the Times Literary Supplement Research Fellow to the British Library
British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...
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, Saltire Book of the Year (for Clara) and the SMIT non-fiction Book of the Year for This is not about Me.
Janice Galloway currently lives in South Lanarkshire with her son, James, and husband, Jonathan.
She has written and presented three radio series for BBC Scotland (Life as a Man, Imagined Lives and Chopin's Scottish Swansong) and works extensively with musicians and visual artists including Sally Beamish, Anne Bevan, Michael Wolchover, Norman McBeath and Alasdair Nocolson. Her book Clara was recorded for the RNIB by the author in 2004.
In December 2008 she was a guest on Private Passions
Private Passions
Private Passions is a weekly music discussion programme which has been running for over 10 years on BBC Radio 3, presented by the composer Michael Berkeley...
, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...
.
Galloway wrote the glosses on Bronte's Shirley
Shirley
Shirley may refer to:*Shirley , either a given name or a surname-Places:United Kingdom*Shirley, Derbyshire, England*Shirley, Southampton, a district of Southampton, England...
and Eliot's Felix Holt and Middlemarch
Middlemarch
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes...
in The Book of Prefaces
The Book of Prefaces
The Book of Prefaces, "Edited and Glossed" by the Scottish artist and novelist Alasdair Gray, provides a history of how literature spread and developed through the nations of England, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States...
, edited by Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel Lanark, published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years...
.
Novels
- The Trick is to Keep BreathingThe Trick is to Keep Breathing (novel)The Trick is to Keep Breathing is the first novel from the writer Janice Galloway. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Polygon in 1989. The novel won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year and was also shortlisted for both the Whitbread First Novel and Scottish First Book awards.-Plot...
(1989) - Foreign Parts (1994)
- Clara (2002) (based on the life of Clara SchumannClara SchumannClara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
)
Collections of short stories
- Blood (1991)
- Where You Find It (1996)
- "Collected Stories" (2009)
and has been widely anthologised in collections since 1990.
Other texts
- This is Not About Me (2008, Memoir)
- Pipelines (2000, prose and poetry text to accompany Anne Bevan's exhibition "undercovered")
- Rosengarten (2004, a book of prose and poetry, matched with an exhibition of obstetrical 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/Janice_Galloway_Official_site/Start.html Janice Galloway Archive - the official website includes a "Critical Perspective" section