Susan Glickman

Susan Glickman (born 1953) is a Canadian writer and critic, celebrated for her wit, imagery, melodic language, and meticulous research. She is teacher of literature and creative writing, currently teaching at Ryerson University in Toronto. She was a professor at the University of Toronto for many years, where her doctoral dissertation was on Shakespeare's dramaturgy.

Her first novel," The Violin Lover", won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction and was listed as one of the best books of 2006 by "The National Post" and "The Picturesque & the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape" (1998) won both the Gabrielle Roy prize for the year's best work of literary criticism and the Raymond Klibansky prize for the year's best work in the humanities.

Her essays and reviews appear in magazines such as "Maisonneuve, Brick, Essays on Canadian Writing, The Journal of Canadian Poetry" and "The University of Toronto Quarterly" among others, and her poetry has been translated into French and Greek.

Works

Novels
* "The Violin Lover" (2006) Poetry
* "Running in Prospect Cemetery: New & Selected Poems" (2004)
* "Hide & Seek" (1995)
* "Henry Moore's Sheep and Other Poem"s (1990)
* "The Power to Move" (1986)
* "Complicity" (1983)

Non-fiction
*" The Picturesque & the Sublime" (1998)

External links

* [http://www.susanglickman.com Official Website]
* [http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=882&L=G The Writers Union of Canada]
* [http://www.wier.ca/sglickman.html Writers in Electronic Residence]
* [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/glickman/index.htm The Canadian Poetry Project]
* [http://www.authorsaloud.com/readings/readings/readings/glickman.html] Author's Aloud audio site]