Rosemary Sullivan

CBC Books | | Posted: June 28, 2018 8:32 PM | Last Updated: March 6, 2019

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Caption: 'I don't know how writers go on strike, but there has to be a sense that the intellectual integrity of modern culture is being deeply compromised,' Rosemary Sullivan, poet and non-fiction author. (Susanna Gordon)

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Critic Rosemary Sullivan is a poet and biographer. She created literary portraits of Elizabeth Smart, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Margaret Atwood and Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. She was the 1995 recipient of Governor General's Award for English-language nonfiction and the winner of the 2015 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Sullivan's books include the historical accounts Villa Air-Bel, Stalin's Daughter and Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen.

Books by Rosemary Sullivan

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Interviews with Rosemary Sullivan

Media Audio | Writers and Company : Love in the Afternoon panel (2001)

Caption: Eleanor speaks with six writers on stage at the International Literary Arts Festival in Victoria: Ian McEwan, A.L. Kennedy, Clare Boylan, Rosemary Sullivan, Shyam Selvadurai and Esta Spalding.

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Media Audio | Sunday Edition : Stalin's Daughter, the Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

Caption: A biography by Rosemary Sullivan

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