2025 Festival: October 20–26
Books & Ideas runs until June!

Susan Swan

Ontario

SUSAN SWAN is a Toronto novelist and non-fiction writer and a professor emerita at York University. Her books include The Wives of BathThe Biggest Modern Woman of the World and What Casanova Told Me. She is also co-founder of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the largest literary prize for women and non-binary writers in Canada and the US. Susan Swan lives in Toronto.

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