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2/28/00

AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR PART OF SLU WRITERS SERIES

CANTON -- Australian novelist Janette Turner Hospital will 
speak and read from her recent work in an appearance at 
St. Lawrence University on Tuesday, March 7, at 8 p.m. in 
Herring-Cole. The event, part of the St. Lawrence Writers 
Series, is open to the public, free of charge.
	Hospital grew up on the subtropical coast of Queensland, 
a landscape that is the setting for her most recent novel, 
Oyster. Inspired by the siege and shootings at Waco, Texas, 
Hospital examines the role of charismatic leaders in a society 
that is both incredibly ancient and utterly of the here and now. 
Described by one British critic as a narrative that "shimmers 
and shifts like the displaced reality in the heat of Outer Maroo 
itself," Oyster was a finalist for Australia's major literary 
prizes and was a New York Times "Notable Book of 1998."
	Hospital has written five other novels -- The Ivory Swing, 
The Tiger in the Tiger Pit, Borderline, Charades and The Last 
Magician -- and three collections of short fiction -- Dislocations, 
Isobars and Collected Stories -- garnering many other literary 
awards including two nominations for Britain's Booker Prize. She 
occupies a chair in literature at the University of South Carolina.

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