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Susan Swan
CM
Born
(1945-06-09) 9 June 1945 (age 79) Midland, Ontario
Citizenship
Canadian
Notable works
The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, The Wives of Bath, The Western Light, The Dead Celebrities Club
Susan SwanCM (born 9 June 1945) is a Canadian author, journalist, and professor. Susan Swan writes classic Canadian novels. Her fiction has been published in 20 countries and translated into 10 languages. She is the co-founder of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction which is open to Canadian and American women fiction writers[1] and received an Order of Canada in 2023 for her mentoring of younger women writers.
Born in Midland, Ontario, she studied at McGill University. Her novels include The Biggest Modern Woman in the World (1983), The Last of The Golden Girls (1989), The Wives of Bath (1993), What Casanova Told Me (2004), and The Western Light (2012). Swan's latest novel is The Dead Celebrities Club (2019). The Globe and Mail called it a "timely tale of greed and corruption, worthy of the age".[2]The Wives of Bath was made into the film Lost and Delirious in 2001, starring Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, and Mischa Barton.[3] The film was listed in the official selection in the Sundance Film Festival. Her first novel, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, about a Canadian giantess related to Swan who exhibited with PT Barnum, is being made into a television series.[4]
Swan currently mentors graduate students in creative writing MA's at the University of Toronto and Guelph University. She was the Robarts Scholar for Canadian Studies at York University from 1999 to 2000 and taught in the Faculty of Humanities at York University from 1991 to 2007 before retiring as a professor to concentrate on her writing. She has participated in the Humber College Humber Writer's Circle at Lakeshore Campus and was Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada for 2007–2008.[5]
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^Toyne, Becky (19 April 2019). "Globe Books spring preview: 37 books to dive into as the weather warms up". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
^Pool, Léa (20 September 2001), Lost and Delirious (Drama, Romance), Cité-Amérique, Dummett Films, retrieved 10 December 2021
^Peter, White. "'Orphan Black' Producer Temple Street To Adapt P.T Barnum Story 'The Biggest Modern Woman Of The World' For TV". Deadline.
^"Current and Past Chairs". The Writers' Union of Canada. 16 April 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
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