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Janice Galloway (born 1955 in Saltcoats, Scotland) is a writer of novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti. ==Biography== She is the second daughter of James Galloway and Janet Clark McBride. Her parents separated when she was four and her father died when she was six. Her sister Nora, sixteen years older, died in 2000 from smoking-related illness. She studied Music and English at Glasgow University, then worked as a school teacher and waitress for ten years before turning to writing. She was the first Scottish Arts Council writer in residence to four prisons (HMPs Cornton Vale, Dungavel, Barlinnie and Polmont YOI) and was the Times Literary Supplement Research Fellow to the British Library in 1999. Her awards include: MIND/Allan Lane Award (for ''The Trick is to Keep Breathing''), the McVitie's Prize (for ''Foreign Parts''), the E.M. Forster Award (presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters), the Creative Scotland Award, Saltire Book of the Year (for ''Clara'') and the SMIT non-fiction Book of the Year for ''This is not about Me'' and Scottish Best Book of the Year 2012 for ''All Made Up''. Janice Galloway currently lives in South Lanarkshire with her husband Jonathan May and friend Alison Cameron.She has one son, James. She has written and presented three radio series for BBC Scotland (''Life as a Man'', ''Imagined Lives'' and ''Chopin's Scottish Swansong'') and works extensively with musicians and visual artists including Sally Beamish, Anne Bevan, Michael Wolchover, Norman McBeath, Alasdair Nicolson and James McNaught. Her books '' Clara'' and ''This is Not About Me'' were recorded for the RNIB Talking Books service by the author in 2004 and 2009 respectively.''This is Not about Me'' and ''All Made Up'' are available to buy on Audible. In December 2008 she was a guest on ''Private Passions'', the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.〔(BBC Radio 3 )〕 and regularly discusses music, writing and ''The Scottish Question'' at public appearances. Galloway wrote the glosses on Bronte's Shirley and Eliot's Felix Holt and Middlemarch in The Book of Prefaces, edited by Alasdair Gray. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janice Galloway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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