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Janice Galloway

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born

January 01, 1955 in Saltcoats, The United Kingdom

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female

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http://www.galloway.1to1.org/Index.html

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Literature & Fiction

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Janice Galloway was born in Ayrshire in 1955 where she worked as a teacher for ten years. Her first novel, The Trick is to keep Breathing, now widely considered to be a contemporary Scottish classic, was published in 1990. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel, Scottish First Book and Aer Lingus Awards, and won the MIND/Allan Lane Book of the Year. The stage adaptation has been performed at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, the Du Maurier Theatre, Toronto and the Royal Court in London. Her second book, Blood, shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize, People's Prize and Satire Award, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the McVitie's Prize in 1994. That same year, and for all three books...more Janice Galloway was born in Ayrshire in 1955 where she worked as a teacher for ten years. Her first novel, The Trick is to keep Breathing, now widely considered to be a contemporary Scottish classic, was published in 1990. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel, Scottish First Book and Aer Lingus Awards, and won the MIND/Allan Lane Book of the Year. The stage adaptation has been performed at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, the Du Maurier Theatre, Toronto and the Royal Court in London. Her second book, Blood, shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize, People's Prize and Satire Award, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the McVitie's Prize in 1994. That same year, and for all three books, she was recipient of the E M Forster Award, presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her story-collection, Where you find it, was published in 1996, followed by a series of collaborative installation texts for sculptor Anne Bevan, published by the Fruitmarket Gallery as Pipelines in 2000. Her only play, Fall, was performed in Edinburgh and Paris in spring, 1998. She was the recipient of a Creative Scotland Award in 2001.

Monster, Janice's opera by Sally Beamish, exploring the life of Mary Shelley, was world premiered by Scottish Opera in February 2002. Her third novel, Clara, based on the tempestuous life of pianist Clara Wieck Schumann, was published by Cape the same year and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize (Eurasia category) and the SAC Book of the Year, going on to win the Saltire Book of the Year. It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2003. Boy book see, a small book of "pieces and poems", also appeared in 2002. In 2003, Janice recorded Clara as Scottish RNIB's first audio book.

Rosengarten, Janice's 2003 collaboration with Anne Bevan exploring obstetric implements and the history of birthing, is now part of the premanent collection of the Hunterian Museum, and is also available as a book.

In 2006, Janice won the Robert Louis Stevenson Award to write at Hotel Chevillon in Grez sur Loing, and in 2007, was the first Scottish receipient of the Jura Writer’s Retreat.

Janice has also worked as a writer in residence for four Scottish prisons and was Times Literary Supplement Research Fellow to the British Library in 1999. Her radio work for the BBC has included the two-part series Life as a Man, a major 7-part series entitled Imagined Lives, In Wordsworth's Footsteps and Chopin’s Scottish Swansong. (less)

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Books by Janice Galloway

Average rating: 4.00 · 1546 ratings · 164 reviews · 19 distinct works

	The Trick Is to Keep Breathing 390 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Foreign Parts 325 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Blood 411 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Clara 351 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	This is Not About Me 389 avg rating — 54 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Where You Find It 370 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	All Made Up 350 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Collected Stories 388 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Boy Book See 400 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Rosengarten by Janice Galloway, Anne Bevan 400 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	My rating:

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“You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.”
― Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

tags: crying , tears , weeping

6 people liked it

“No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.”
― Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

tags: dark , darkness

4 people liked it

“It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.”
― Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

tags: music , trouble

3 people liked it

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