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	Jane Urquhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jane Urquhart, OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian author.
		Jane Urquhart's books have been published in many countries, including the Netherlands, France, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, Australia, and the United States, and have been translated into several languages.
		Urquhart has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the presidential writer-in-residence fellowship at the University of Toronto.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Jane_Urquhart (385 words)

	Knowledge King - Jane Urquhart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jane Urquhart (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian author.
		Urquhart also received the Marian Engel Award for an outstanding body of prose written by a Canadian woman.
		Jane Urquhart has been Writer-in-Residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University of Toronto.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/j/ja/jane_urquhart.html (332 words)

	Jane Urquhart Diary \| Library Newsletter \| Library \| University of Waterloo
		UW President James Downey and author Jane Urquhart (seated) are seen here comparing the original copy of her diary with the presentation facsimile prepared as a part of the preservation process.
		Jane Urquhart describes this diary--which also served as a sketchbook, journal, and trip diary--as her "best one" in that it shows her collaborative work with her husband, artist Tony Urquhart.
		Urquhart further commented that it was important to her to have a portion of her original materials in the University of Waterloo Library because "Without the UW Library I couldn't have written the books I have.
	www.lib.uwaterloo.ca /newsletters/ln29no3.html (492 words)

	Urquhart, Jane
		Urquhart, Jane, novelist, poet, short story writer (b at Little Long Lac, Ont 21 Jun 1949).
		Urquhart's skilful evocation of historical setting is also apparent in her novels.
		Her first, The Whirlpool (1986), set in Niagara Falls in the late 1890s, examines the convergence of art and life, a theme also present in Changing Heaven (1990), where the story of two 20th-century academics is interwoven with that of a turn-of-the-century balloonist, her lover, and the ghost - or memory - of Emily Brontë.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0010841 (224 words)

	Jane Urquhart fonds \| Archives and Manuscripts \| Special Collections \| Library \| University of Waterloo
		Jane Urquhart was born in 1949 in Little Long Lac, Ontario, and received her education in Toronto and Guelph.
		Jane Urquhart has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa, at Memorial University, and most recently in 1997 at the University of Toronto.
		The fonds consists of a single diary kept by Jane Urquhart from 1974 to 1981, before she began her writing career, and documents primarily several trips to Europe taken with Tony Urquhart.
	www.lib.uwaterloo.ca /discipline/SpecColl/archives/urquhartj.html (276 words)

	Varsity Arts & Culture -- Jane Urquhart: A Portrait of Success (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Urquhart was referring to her signature lyrical style and her tendency to write about centuries past, whether it be Niagara Falls in the 19th century, the ghost of Emily Bronte or the incredible story of Irish immigrants in 19th century Ontario.
		Urquhart comments, "Although [Austin] is the protagonist of the story, he is a voyeur, so he's not really an active protagonist.
		An international reputation is something with which Urquhart is quite familiar as she is a popular novelist in France.
	www.varsity.utoronto.ca /archives/118/dec10/review/Jane.html (1223 words)

	Adelaide Festival of Arts 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Urquhart has received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto.
		Jane Urquhart was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto.
		Jane Urquhart’s visit has been made possible by the support of Flinders University of South Australia.
	www.adelaidefestival.org.au /archives/2002/bio.asp?ID=165¤tsection=4 (109 words)

	Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Canadian: Authors: Novelists: Urquhart, Jane
		Jane Urquhart Diary Donated to the University of Waterloo Library · iweb · cached · Article from the library's newsletter.
		Award-winning writer Jane Urquhart hails Canada's libraries · The author explains how the country's libraries are the cornerstone of democracy.
		Jane Urquhart: A Portrait of Success · cached · The author talks about her novel, 'The Underpainter', and about being a Canadian writer.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=22656 (175 words)

	Jane_urquhart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Urquhart uses as the centrepiece the building of the Canadian war memorial at Vimy Ridge...
		Not that Jane Urquhart intended it to be, but it so outstrips Return To Wuthering Heights by Anna L'Estrange that it cannot help but unwittingly assume that mantle...
		Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter, a gem of a novel : I found Jane Urquhart's novel to be quite compelling and well.written...
	books.mysic.ca /Author/Jane_Urquhart (712 words)

	Northwest Passages - Author Profile: Jane Urquhart
		Urquhart's mastery of language and her ability to weave story and create memorable characters are in full force in this new novel.
		It is due to be released in Canada in September 1997 and later in the fall in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
		Readers unfamiliar with Urquhart's work will discover novels that display her ability to weave rich narrative tapestries which shift between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, between real and imagined worlds, and between characters, their settings and their stories.
	www.nwpassages.com /bios/urquhart.asp (455 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE UNDERPAINTER by Jane Urquhart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Urquhart, who writes vividly about young love, grief, and loss, experienced widowhood at the tender age of 24 when her husband, an art student, was tragically killed in an accident.
		Soon afterwards she met Tony Urquhart, the painter to whom she has been married for over twenty years and the father of her teenage daughter.
		Jane Urquhart is the author of three previous novels: The Whirlpool, which won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1992, Changing Heaven; and Away, which won the Trillium Award in 1993, spent 132 weeks on the Canadian bestseller lists and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/underpainter-author.asp (1841 words)

	Jane Urquhart, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jane Urquhart was born in the small northern Ontario mining community of Little Long Lac (near Geraldton) and spent her later childhood and adolescence in Toronto.
		Jane Urquhart's books have been published in many countries, including Holland, France, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, Australia, and The United States, and have been translated into several languages.
		In the fall of 1997, her fourth novel, The Underpainter, was published to wide critical acclaim, won the 1997 Governor General's Award, and became a fixture on the national bestseller lists.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /canpoetry/urquhart/bio.htm (365 words)

	Meta : En marge du monde et aux frontières du récit : Les petites fleurs de Madame de Montespan de Jane ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jane Urquhart's The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan is an interesting collection of poems partly because these poem paintings are a diegesis.
		Urquhart a évoqué dans une entrevue l'impression du roi-soleil qui lui était venue en visitant Versailles : celle d'un roi obsédé par l'ordre et le pouvoir ; la nature représentant pour lui un chaos qui échappait à son contrôle, il fallait l'assujettir en lui imposant une symétrie parfaite[ 3 ].
		Urquhart affectionne aussi les prépositions dynamiques, celles qui impliquent un mouvement, comme le from de there are no more songs from the rooms he moves through.
	www.erudit.org /revue/meta/2000/v45/n1/002407ar.html (5601 words)

	Reinhard Donath - Scratches: Jane Urquhart, "Away"
		Jane Urquhart was born in Geraldton, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto.
		Urquhart's poetic skill is not only apparent in her writing of Away, but she has also published three books of poetry as well as several other award winning novels, including, most notably, The Underpainter, for which she received the 1997 Governor General's Award.
		Jane Urquhart's characters and phrases shine with a literary purity I didn't think was possible to accomplish, and to do it so effortlessly.
	www.englisch.schule.de /urquhart.htm (2285 words)

	Jane Urquhart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jane Urquhart (llevado de junio el 21 de 1949) es autor canadiense.
		Los libros de Jane Urquhart se han publicado en muchos países, incluyendo los Países Bajos, Francia, Alemania, Gran Bretaña, Escandinavia, Australia, y los Estados Unidos, y se han traducido a varias idiomas.
		Jane Urquhart ha sido Escritor-en-Residencia en la universidad de Ottawa y en la universidad conmemorativa de Terranova y, durante el invierno y el resorte de 1997, de la ella llevó a cabo la beca presidencial de la Escritor-en-Residencia en la universidad de Toronto.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ja/Jane%20Urquhart.htm (394 words)

	The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart - Reviewed by Ann Skea - Eclectica Magazine v3n1
		Her clear vision is reflected in language which is plain and quite ordinary, yet her art is subtle, delicate, multi-faceted and very moving.
		Urquhart's landscape is broad and yet intimately known.
		Urquhart's rich perception of life, then, is quite unlike that of her narrator.
	www.eclectica.org /v3n1/skea_urquhart.html (404 words)

	1997 Governor General's Literary Award Winner: Jane Urquhart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jane Urquhart's books have been published in many countries, including Holland, France, Germany, Britain, Spain, Scandinavia, Italy and the United States.
		In the autumn of 1997 a degree of Doctor of Letters, (honoris causa), was conferred on her by the University of Waterloo.
		Urquhart seamlessly imbues both character and landscape with the eternal power of myth.
	www.nlc-bnc.ca /3/8/t8-5015-e.html (342 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Away : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Urquhart beguiles the reader with a cast of lovable eccentric characters in a wonderfully surreal world that includes a talking crow and a man who can charm skunks "away." An extraordinary achievement; highly recommended.
		Urquhart writes with such grace and mastery that one is often compelled to re-read large sections just to absorb her words.
		Urquhart had simply made a novella out of the first chapter and entitled it A Fish On A Pool, it would be a first rate artistic achievement.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140249265?v=glance (1652 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Changing Heaven by Jane Urquhart
		Urquhart reveals something about the act of artistic creation, the ways in which stories enter our lives, and about the cyclical nature of love throughout time.
		Urquhart has received the Marian Engel Award, and has been named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France.
		Urquhart has received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University of Toronto.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0771086636 (258 words)

	UPEI
		Internationally acclaimed and award-winning author Jane Urquhart will speak on March 21, 2002, at 7:30 pm in the Duffy Amphitheatre, University of Prince Edward Island as part of the Confederation Lecture Series.
		Urquhart will be reading from her latest novel, The Stone Carvers.
		Urquhart's presentation is a prelude to the L.M. Montgomery Institute's International Conference, June 20-23, 2002, at UPEI on the theme of "L.M. Montgomery and Life Writing." Immediately following the conference, the L.M. Montgomery Institute will sponsor an intensive, one-week creative writing workshop with a subsequent two weeks of e-mail editorial consultations.
	www.upei.ca /cgi-new/view.cgi?id=958 (492 words)

	Jane Urquhart - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Urquhart also received the Marian_Engel_Award for an outstanding body of prose written by a Canadian woman.
		In 1996 she was named to France's Order of Arts and Letters as a Chevalier, and "''Away''" was shortlisted for the International_IMPAC_Dublin_Literary_Award_, the world's largest literary prize for a single work of fiction.
		Jane Urquhart has been Writer-in-Residence at the University_of_Ottawa and at Memorial_University_of_Newfoundland and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University_of_Toronto.
	www.erdmond.com /Jane_Urquhart.html (269 words)

	Powell's Books - The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is against the backdrop of this incredible achievement that Jane Urquhart sets her intricately woven new novel.
		At the center of the story is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of a master woodcarver, who spends her childhood in a German-settled community in southwestern Ontario in the years leading up to the war.
		Jane Urquhart is the author of The Underpainter, winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction; Away, winner of the Trillium Award; Changing Heaven; and The Whirlpool, winner of Le Prix du Meilleur Livre étranger in France.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-0670030449-2 (510 words)

	Jane Urquhart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		jane urquhart’s the stone carvers has made the long list of nominations for the booker prize.
		Urquhart is a Canadian of Irish descent, who began writing poetry as a teenager.
		Urquhart and her husband, a sculptor, own a house in Kerry, where she spends much of her writing time.
	www.ivenus.com /finance/features/CU-jane_u-the_stone_carvers-wk73.asp (895 words)

	Jane Urquhart among honorary degree recipients
		Award-winning Canadian author Jane Urquhart will be among the honorary degree recipients at the University of Toronto's November convocation ceremonies.
		A former writer-in-residence at U of T, Urquhart received the Governor General's Award for fiction for her 1997 novel The Underpainter.
		Urquhart will be awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree on Monday, Nov. 22 at 6 p.m.
	www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca /bin/19991115.asp (335 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Canadian: Authors: Novelists: Urquhart, Jane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Award-winning writer Jane Urquhart hails Canada's libraries - The author explains how the country's libraries are the cornerstone of democracy.
		Jane Urquhart Diary Donated to the University of Waterloo Library - Article from the library's newsletter.
		Jane Urquhart: A Portrait of Success - The author talks about her novel, 'The Underpainter', and about being a Canadian writer.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Canadian/Authors/Novelists/Urquhart,_Jane (199 words)

	Interview \| Jane Urquhart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Urquhart's earliest publications were short fiction and poetry.
		Urquhart says that, for her, the book is "about the redemptive nature of making art.
		Jane Urquhart lives in Ontario with her husband, the artist Anthony Urquhart.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/urquhart.html (3862 words)

	UTSC: News Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The reading by Jane Urquhart originally scheduled for Thursday January 15th has been rescheduled for Thursday February 5th at 10am in the Residence Centre (located beside the new residences, Joan Foley Hall).
		Jane will be happy to sign copies of her book(s) so please don't forget to bring them.
		Jane Urquhart has received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto.
	www.scar.utoronto.ca /~advancement/news/news_stories/urquhart.html (302 words)

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