Janette Turner Hospital, a USC Distinguished Carolina Professor of English, has won a third literary award for Due Preparations for the Plague, published in 2003.
Sisters in Crime, a Melbourne-based organization that is also one of Australia's largest and most prestigious literary societies, recently presented Turner Hospital the Davitt Award for best crime novel written by an Australian woman.
The award is the third for Turner Hospital and her book, which is a tale of terrorism, fear, loss, and the human experience. She also has been honored with Australia's Queensland Premiere's Literary Award and the Patrick White Award for outstanding literary achievement.
The book was listed among the best books of the year by the Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Age, Toronto Globe & Mail, Montreal Gazette, San Francisco Chronicle, and London Times.
A native of Queensland, Australia, Turner Hospital moved to the United States in the 1960s and came to USC in 1999 as writer-in-residence. She also has been writer-in-residence at universities in Australia, Canada, England, and France, as well as at MIT and Boston and Colgate universities.
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