Jane Urquhart, Order of Canada OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet born in Little Long Lac, Ontario. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her evocative style which blends history with the present day. Her first novel, The Whirlpool (published 1986), gained her international recognition when she became the first Canadian to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Award). Her subsequent novels were even more successful. Away, published in 1993, won the Trillium Award and was a national bestseller. In 1997, her fourth novel, The Underpainter, won the Governor General's Literary Award.
[on the cutbacks in services available from Library and Archives Canada, 2014] It's bone-chilling. Archives are the heart and soul of the country. They are one of the great and good things about a democratic society. It never occurred to me that anyone would be denied access to those collections, or that our own government would be suspicious of what researchers are doing.
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Stratford, Ontario, Canada [June 2007]
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She was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on October 29, 2004 for her services to Canadian Literature.
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