Name Susan Glickman Role Writer | Education University of Toronto | |
Books The Tale‑teller: A Novel, Safe As Houses, The Violin Lover, The Smooth Yarrow, The Picturesque and the S | ||
Carmine Starnino introduces poet Susan Glickman
Susan Glickman (born 1953) is a Canadian writer and critic. She is teacher of literature and creative writing, teaching at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto.
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Glickman was formerly an English professor at the University of Toronto, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on Shakespeare's dramaturgy. She also works as an freelance editor, primarily of academic texts.
Glickman's 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 have appeared in magazines including 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.