{{short description|British poet and novelist}} {{see also| Sue Wicks}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Use British English|date=November 2015}} '''Susan Wicks''' (born 1947 Kent, England) is a British poet and novelist.<ref>{{cite web |author=British Council |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth225 |title=Susan Wicks &#124; British Council Literature |publisher=Contemporarywriters.com |date=2014-08-18 |access-date=2014-08-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108174350/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth225 |archive-date=8 January 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/biography.htm?writer_id=371 |access-date=26 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416041621/http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/biography.htm?writer_id=371 |archive-date=16 April 2011 |title=Arc Publications - Susan Wicks }}</ref> She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Tunbridge Wells.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Susan+Wicks |title=Author Page > Susan Wicks |publisher=Bloodaxe Books |access-date=2014-08-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826130132/http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Susan+Wicks |archive-date=26 August 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=40 |title=Blog |publisher=Arc Publications |date=2010-05-25 |access-date=2014-08-22}}</ref> She won the 2014 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her translation of Valérie Rouzeau's ''Talking Vrouz''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/news/item/article/the-winner-of-the-oxford-weidenfeld |title=The winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2014 is Susan Wicks for... |publisher=Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize |date=14 June 2014 |access-date=17 June 2014}}</ref>

==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 Books, 2003, {{ISBN|978-1-85224-636-5}} *''De-iced'', Bloodaxe Books, 2007, {{ISBN|978-1-85224-755-3}} *''House of Tongues'', Bloodaxe Books, 2011, {{ISBN|978-1-85224-906-9}} *''The Months'', Bloodaxe Books, 2016, {{ISBN|978-1-78037-290-7}}

===Poetry translations === *Valérie Rouzeau, ''Cold Spring in Winter'', Arc, 2009, {{ISBN|978-1-904614-30-2}} *Valérie Rouzeau, ''Talking Vrouz'', Arc, 2013, {{ISBN|978-1-908376-16-9}} *''Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry'' (translated Michèle Métail), 2015. Enitharmon Press

===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}}

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==External links== *{{cite news| url=http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/05/31/the-griffin-poetry-prize-questionnaire-susan%C2%A0wicks/| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129230729/http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/05/31/the-griffin-poetry-prize-questionnaire-susan%C2%A0wicks/| url-status=dead| archive-date=January 29, 2013| title=The Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire: Susan Wicks| work=The National Post| date=May 31, 2010}} *{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jan/13/featuresreviews.guardianreview26| title=Flying clean | author= Kate Clanchy| work=The Guardian| date= 13 January 2007 }} *{{cite news| url= http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/SusanWicksRollUpfortheArabianDerby.htm| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111005175547/http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/SusanWicksRollUpfortheArabianDerby.htm| url-status= usurped| archive-date= 5 October 2011| title=''Roll Up for the Arabian Derby'' review| author=Diane Becker| work=The Short Review}} *{{YouTube|70Q3zyx9zPA|"Poet Valérie Rouzeau and translator Susan Wicks read from Cold Spring in Winter"}}

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