Susan Wicks

Susan Wicks (born 1947 Kent, England) is a British poet, and novelist.^[1]

She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent.^[2] She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Tunbridge Wells.^[3]

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 Forward Poetry Prize. Her translation of Valérie Rouzeau's Pas Revoir (Cold Spring in Winter) won the 2010 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and it was shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2010 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.^[4] She won the 2014 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her translation of Valérie Rouzeau's Talking Vrouz.^[5]

Works

Poetry

• Singing Underwater, Faber and Faber, 1992 ISBN 978-0-571-16724-1
• Open diagnosis , Faber and Faber, 1994, ISBN 978-0-571-17139-2
• The Clever Daughter, Faber and Faber, 1996, ISBN 978-0-571-17926-8
• Night Toad: New & Selected Poems, Bloodaxe, 2003, ISBN 978-1-85224-636-5
• De-iced, Bloodaxe, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85224-755-3
• Valérie Rouzeau, Cold Spring in Winter, Arc, 2009, ISBN 978-1-904614-30-2
• House of Tongues, Bloodaxe, 2011

Memoir

• Driving My Father, Faber and Faber, 1995, ISBN 978-0-465-01699-0

Novels

• The Key, Faber and Faber, 1997, ISBN 978-0-571-17919-0
• Little Thing. Faber and Faber, 1998, ISBN 978-0-571-19344-8

Short stories

• Roll Up for the Arabian Derby, bluechrome, 2008, ISBN 978-1-906061-39-5

References

1. British Council (2014-08-18). "Susan Wicks | British Council Literature". Contemporarywriters.com. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
2. https://web.archive.org/20110416041621/http://www.arcpublications.co.uk:80/biography.htm?writer_id=371. Archived from the original on 16 April 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. "Author Page > Susan Wicks". Bloodaxe Books. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
4. "Blog". Arc Publications. 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
5. "The winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2014 is Susan Wicks for...". Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. 14 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

External links

• "The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire: Susan Wicks". The National Post. May 31, 2010.
• Kate Clanchy (13 January 2007). "Flying clean". The Guardian.
• Diane Becker. "Roll Up for the Arabian Derby review". The Short Review.
• "Poet Valérie Rouzeau and translator Susan Wicks read from Cold Spring in Winter" on YouTube