George Szanto

George Szanto
Born1940 (age 83–84)
Derry, Northern Ireland
Other names
  • George H. Szanto
Education
Occupation(s)Novelist, playwright, critic
Organizations[1]
SpouseAlison Szanto
Awards
Websitehttp://georgeszanto.com/

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.[1]

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.[1]

Bibliography

Short story collections

  • Sixteen Ways to Skin a Cat (1977)[1]
  • Duets (with Per Brask) (1989)[2]

Novels

  • Not Working (1982)[1]
  • The Underside of Stones: A Story Cycle (1990)[1]
  • Friends & Marriages (1994)[1]
  • The Condesa of M (2001)[1]
  • Second Sight (2004)
  • The Tartarus House on Crab[3]
  • Whatever Lola Wants (2014)[4]

Mysteries

Four novels, co-authored with Sandy Frances Duncan, comprise the Islands Investigations International Mysteries, as follows:

  • Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island (2009)[5]
  • Always Kiss the Corpse on Whidbey Island (2010)[6]
  • Never Hug a Mugger on Quadra Island (2011)[7]
  • Always Love a Villain on San Juan Island (2013)[8]

Criticism

  • Narrative Consciousness: Structure and Perception in the Fiction of Kafka, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet (1972)[1]
  • Theater and Propaganda (1978)[1]
  • Narrative Taste and Social Perspectives: The Matter of Quality (1987)[1]
  • Inside the Statues of Saints: Mexican Writers Talk About Culture and Corruption, Politics and Daily Life[9]

Biography

  • Bog Tender: Coming Home to Nature and Memory (2013)[10]

Drama

  • The New Black Crook (1971)[1]
  • Chinchill! (with Milton Savage) (1972)[1]
  • After the Ceremony (1978)[1]
  • The Next Move (1981)[1]

Satire

  • A modest proposition to the people of Canada concerning the pervasive ills and divisions afflicting the nation, including but not limited to the anguish of a land rent asunder by heinous tax bills, curtailment of economic opportunity, the plight of the middle classes, and Quebec (with Per Brask and the Committee Responsible for the Oversight of Canadian Conflict) (1992)[11]

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "Biography in Context: George H. Szanto". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2007. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  2. ^ Duets. WorldCat. OCLC 19848172. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
  3. ^ The Tartarus House on Crab. WorldCat. OCLC 670421135. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
  4. ^ Whatever Lola Wants: A Novel. WorldCat. OCLC 869266714. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
  5. ^ Never Sleep with a Suspect on Gabriola Island. WorldCat. OCLC 305104485. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  6. ^ Always Kiss the Corpse on Whidbey Island. WorldCat. OCLC 1036057052. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  7. ^ Never Hug a Mugger on Quadra Island. WorldCat. OCLC 935755909. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  8. ^ Always Love a Villain on San Juan Island. WorldCat. OCLC 833553361. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  9. ^ "Biography in Context: George Szanto". Directory of American Scholars. Gale. 2002. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
  10. ^ Bog Tender. WorldCat. OCLC 813522406. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
  11. ^ A Modest Proposition... WorldCat. OCLC 24215526. Retrieved April 30, 2019.