Janette Turner Hospital

Movie premiere of "Golden Girl" at International Film Festival
From Jannine Barnes, Producer:

Just a quick note to let you all know that Golden Girl will have its premiere screening this Sunday at the Brisbane International Film Festival. Grant and I are really pleased that we will be having our debut at BIFF as its a really impressive line up of films this year and we are thrilled to be one of them!

For those of you keen to keep up with what’s happening with the film then please like us on facebook. See below for details about the film and look for more information and photos on www.goldengirl.com.au and Happening Films.

Golden Girl
Funded by Film Victoria’s Propeller program and produced by Happening Films, Golden Girl was directed by Grant Scicluna, written by Holly Alexander and produced by Jannine Barnes. Based on a short story by Janette Turner Hospital, Golden Girl stars AFI Award winning actress, Marny Kennedy (Conspiracy 365, Mortified, The Saddle Club), Hanna Mangan-Lawrence (X, Bed of Roses, The Square) and Jane Allsop (The Slap, Tangle and Rush). It tells the story of teenager, Cilla, who wakes in hospital with little memory of what put her there. Drifting in and out of consciousness, her fragmented memories and dreams intertwine with reality, evoking the summer she just spent with friends, cut short by an accident she cannot recall.

Thanks for being part of this wonderful film!

Kind regards
Jannine

Janette Turner Hospital has been invited as a featured author at literary festivals in Beijing and Shanghai in March 2012.

David Callahan was awarded the Walter McRae Russell Award on July 5, 2011, at the annual General Meeting of ASAL (Association for the study of Australian Literature) at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

The Walter McRae Russell Award is for the best book of literary scholarship on an Australian subject published in the preceding two calendar years. The Award was given for David Callahan's book, Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital.

The judges' citation: David Callahan: Rainforest Narratives: the Work of Janette Turner Hospital (UQP)

David Callahan's full-length study of Janette Turner Hospital's ouevre is a fine example of skilful textual criticism. The rainforest as metaphoric site evokes Hospital's multivalent narrative strategies, and the open-ended nature of Callahan's analysis pays tribute to his author's lead. Callahan skilfully demonstrates the transcendence of geographic borders and the importance of Australian roots (family histories and shared landscapes) as vital to the creative tensions that sustain Hospital's work. Yet he is careful to place Hospital's prodigious literary effort in its transnational contexts so that her stories are examined in all their touching and challenging complexities-their 'permeable borders' and 'fractal realities', their stories of perceptual and physical dislocation, of hidden histories, of the destabilising presence of memory and existence of love as a 'fact of absences'. In keeping up with, and celebrating, this author's employment of narrative design and patterning drawn from science, history, metaphysics, art, myth, music and contemporary politics, not to mention, life, Callahan has earned his stripes. This is literary criticism that importantly celebrates the achievement of Australian literature as a world class phenomenon.

Review of Callahan in Miscelanea: a journal of English and American Studies

Hospital will be a featured author at the Italian literary festival, Letter Altura, on Lake Maggiore in June 2010, to discuss Orfeo Perduto, the Italian edition of Orpheus Lost. Hospital has given interviews to assorted Italian media, including to La Reppublicca.

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