Susanna Roxman Susanna (Ellinor) Roxman is an Anglophone writer, poet

Poet

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 and critic born in Stockholm

Stockholm

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; her father’s family is Scottish. She was considered a gifted child. Her first few books were written in Swedish, but she switched over to English as her professional language. After having worked for some years as a secretary, a ballet

Ballet

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 teacher, and a fashion model, Roxman studied at Stockholm University

Stockholm University

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, King’s College

King's College London

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 at London University, Lund University, and Gothenburg University

Gothenburg University

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, where she got a Ph.D.

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 in Comparative Literature.1996-2005 she headed the Centre of Classical Mythology at Lund University

Lund University

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. She has had several collections of poetry published, as well as literary criticism

Literary criticism

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. Her poems have also appeared in literary magazines world-wide. Some of these pieces have been translated into Arabic and Persian. Roxman has taken part in many poetry

Poetry

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 readings, notably at the Edinburgh Festival

Edinburgh Festival

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 in 2006, 2009, and 2010. Her Anglophone poetry collections (see below) were displayed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (2006, 2009, 2010), the Beijing International Book Fair (2007), and the Book Expo, Los Angeles (2008).

Books

Written in Swedish:

• 1978 -- Riva villor (poetry collection). Bokád, Stockholm.
• 1983 – Nymferna kommer (poetry collection; illustrated by Stefan Sjoberg). Kalejdoskop, Ahus.
• 1985 – Glom de doda (poetry collection). Symposion, Gothenburg and Stockholm.

Written in English:

• 1984 – Guilt and Glory: Studies in Margaret Drabble’s Novels 1963-80 (literary criticism). Gothenburg University/Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm.
• 1996 – Broken Angels (poetry collection). Dionysia Press, Edinburgh.
• 2001 -- October (poetry). Handbound miniature book. On every page handpainted artwork by Alicia Bailey. Each copy of October is signed and numbered. This is a collector's item. Ravenpress, Lake City, Colorado.
• 2003 – Emblems of Classical Deities in Ancient and Modern Pictorial Arts (encyclopaedia for university students). Department of Classics and Semitics/Lund University. Also posted on the Greek Mythology Link (please see below under External Links).
• 2006-7 – Imagining Seals (poetry collection). Dionysia Press, Edinburgh.

Literary Magazines

Roxman has contributed poems and lyrical prose to more than 60 literary magazines world-wide. These include:

• In Britain
  United Kingdom
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  : Stand, Orbis, Magma, Staple.
• In the USA: Prairie Schooner, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cimarron Review, Visions International.
• In Canada
  Canada
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  : The Fiddlehead, Grain, Wascana Review, Room of One’s Own.
• In Ireland: Poetry Ireland Review.
• In Austria: Poetry Salzburg Review.
• In South Africa
  South Africa
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  : New Contrast.
• In Japan
  Japan
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  : Poetry Kanto.

She has also written reviews which have appeared in magazines, including Prairie Schooner, The Spoon River Poetry Review,
Poetry Salzburg Review, Dance Magazine, and Plays & Players.

Encyclopaedias

• Three articles in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, edited by Valerie Grosvenor Myer and Steven R. Serafin. Continuum, New York 2003.
• Three articles in New Makers of Modern Culture, edited by Justin Wintle. Routledge, London, 2006.
• Two articles in The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture, edited by Justin Wintle. Routledge, London, 2008.

Websites

Poems of Roxman’s appear on her own website, as well as on the Greek Mythology Link (please see both links below).

Daily Newspapers

Susanna Roxman has contributed many review articles on literature and ballet to the arts pages of some of the national newspapers in Sweden. These include Dagens Nyheter, Arbetet (now folded), Sydsvenska Dagbladet, and Aftonbladet.

Radio Work

She has also written a large number of pieces on the arts for the National Radio, Sweden.

Editing Work

Roxman was on the editorial board of the literary magazine Understanding (published by Dionysia Press, Edinburgh) 1991-2003. She co-edited two multi-cultural anthologies of poetry and prose:
Fjorton poeter fran Lund (with Guilem Rodrigues da Silva), Lunds Lilla Penklubb/Forfattarcentrum Syd, Lund 1982; Varlden i Lund (with Karin Lentz and Guilem Rodrigues da Silva), Lunds Lilla Penklubb, Lund 1985.

Listings in Works of Reference

• The International Who’s Who in Poetry. Routledge, London.
• World Who’s Who. Routledge (online).

Awards

• 1979 -- Grant from the Swedish Authors’ Foundation.
• 1984 – Arts Grant from Malmohus County Council, Sweden.
• 1990 – The Swedish Balzac Prize.
• 1994 – Special Mention in the Open University Poetry Competition, UK, for poem "Seaside Resort opposite Elsinore, in February".
• 1994 – The Marjorie Lees Linn Poetry Award (Editor’s Choice), Elk River Review, USA, for poem "Ithaca".
• 1995 -- The Marjorie Lees Linn Poetry Award (Editor's Choice), Elk River Review, USA, for poem "Concentration Camp Guard Found Dead in a Canal".
• 1996 – The Arts Award of the City of Lund, for Broken Angels.
• 2001 – Second Prize in short story competition, New Fiction Project, USA, for story "Vigil in Berlin".
• 2007 – Readers’ Award in Orbis, UK, for poem "Lappic Shamans".