George Szanto

rdf:langString George Szanto

rdf:langString George Szanto

rdf:langString George Szanto

rdf:langString * Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada * Hugh MacLennan Award for Fiction

rdf:langString * Dartmouth College * University of Frankfurt am Main * University of Aix-Marseille * Harvard University, Ph.D. 1967

rdf:langString Novelist, playwright, critic

rdf:langString * George H. Szanto

rdf:langString Alison Szanto

rdf:langString George Szanto (born 1940) is an American-Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, and scholar. His published work includes more than a dozen novels and short-story collections as well as plays, full-length works of literary criticism, mysteries, and a memoir. His work has also appeared in literary periodicals including the Kansas Quarterly, the Bucknell Review, the Massachusetts Review, and the Canadian Comparative Literature Review and in anthologies. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he won the Hugh MacLennan Award for Fiction in 1995 for his novel Friends & Marriages. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, Szanto attended Dartmouth College in the United States, the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, and the University of Aix-Marseille in France before completing a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1967. During his academic career, Szanto taught comparative and dramatic literature at the University of California, San Diego, and comparative literature at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.

rdf:langString * Modern Language Association of America * International Comparative Literature Association * Writers Union of Canada