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Rosemary Sullivan

ローズマリー・サリヴァン

Rōzumarī Sariban

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1947-01-01 (Valois, Quebec, Canada)
Nationality
カナダ, カナダ人
Languages
English
Residence History
Valois, Quebec, Canada → Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Career

Occupations
Writer, Poet, Biographer, Anthologist, Professor emerita
Active Years
1972-2024
Affiliations
University of Toronto, Royal Society of Canada
Memberships
Royal Society of Canada
Nominations
By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, a Life nominated for Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction

Education

McGill University
English
Degree: BA
Period: 1964-1968
Year of Graduation: 1968
Country: Canada
Attended on a scholarship
University of Connecticut
English
Degree: MA
Period: 1968-1969
Year of Graduation: 1969
Country: United States
University of Sussex
English
Degree: PhD
Period: 1969-1972
Year of Graduation: 1972
Country: United Kingdom
Thesis: The Garden Master: The Poetry of Theodore Roethke

Awards

Lorne Pierce Medal
2008
Organization: Royal Society of Canada
Result: 受賞
Gerald Lampert Award
1987
Work: The Space a Name Makes
Result: 受賞
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction
1995
Work: Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
Result: 受賞
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
2015
Work: Stalin's Daughter
Organization: Writers' Trust of Canada
Result: 受賞
RBC Taylor Prize
2016
Work: Stalin's Daughter
Result: 受賞
Order of Canada (OC)
2012
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

2015 Biography

Biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Stalin.

Dictator's familyDefectionCold War

Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen

1995 Biography

Biography of Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen.

Canadian literaturePoetry

The Space a Name Makes

1986 Poetry

Sullivan's first collection of poems.

NameSpace

Bibliography

  • By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, a Life (1991)
  • Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen (1995)
  • The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out (1998)
  • Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille (2006)
  • Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (2015)
  • The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation (2022)
  • The Space a Name Makes (1986)
  • Blue Panic (1991)
  • The Bone Ladder: New and Selected Poems (2000)
  • The Garden Master: The Poetry of Theodore Roethke (1975)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Expert in biographyPoetic prose
Recurring Motifs
Women's livesHistorical figures

Legacy

Prominent Canadian biographer and poet, known internationally for works like Stalin's Daughter and The Betrayal of Anne Frank.