Susan Wicks (born 1947

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) is a British

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and novelist. She studied at the

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. She taught at

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, and the

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. She teaches at

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. She lives in

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Awards

''Singing Underwater'' won the 1992 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize. ''The Clever Daughter'' was shortlisted for both the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize, and 1996

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. Her translation of

Valérie Rouzeau Valérie Rouzeau (born 22 August 1967, in Cosne-sur-Loire), is a French poet and translator. She is the eldest of a family of seven children. She holds a Master of literary translation. She received the Prix Guillaume Apollinaire for Poetry in 2 ...

's ''Pas Revoir'' (''Cold Spring in Winter'') won the 2010 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and it was shortlisted for the 2010

Griffin Poetry Prize The Griffin Poetry Prize is a Canadian poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. Before 2022, two separate awards went to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language. I ...

and the 2010

Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is an annual literary prize for any book-length translation into English from any other living European language. The first prize was awarded in 1999. The prize is funded by and named in honour of Lord Wei ...

. She won the 2014

for her translation of

's ''Talking Vrouz''.

Works

Poetry

*''Singing Underwater'', Faber and Faber, 1992 *''Open diagnosis '', Faber and Faber, 1994, *''The Clever Daughter'', Faber and Faber, 1996, *''Night Toad: New & Selected Poems'', Bloodaxe Books, 2003, *''De-iced'', Bloodaxe Books, 2007, *''House of Tongues'', Bloodaxe Books, 2011, *''The Months'', Bloodaxe Books, 2016,

Poetry translations

*Valérie Rouzeau, ''Cold Spring in Winter'', Arc, 2009, *Valérie Rouzeau, ''Talking Vrouz'', Arc, 2013, *''Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry'' (translated Michèle Métail), 2015.

Enitharmon Press Enitharmon Press is an independent British publishing house specialising in artists' books, poetry, limited editions and original prints. The name of the press comes from the poetry of William Blake: Enitharmon was a character who represented s ...

Memoir

*'' Driving My Father'', Faber and Faber, 1995,

Novels

*'' The Key'', Faber and Faber, 1997, *'' Little Thing''. Faber and Faber, 1998,

Short stories

*'' Roll Up for the Arabian Derby'', bluechrome, 2008,

References

External links

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