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Susan Swan has been recognized by her peers and readers through many awards and honours. A partial list is included here, a complete list is detailed in her Curriculum Vitae, available from the section entitled  About Susan Swan.


Selected list of Honours, Awards and Grants

Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada, 2007–2008

Robarts Millennial Scholar, York University, 1999-2001

Canada Council Award for Fiction, l998.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Travel Grant, York University, 1996.

Toronto Arts Council Award for Fiction, 1996.

Canada Council Short-term Grant, Ottawa, 1995.

Ontario Arts Council Award for Works-in-Progress, 1995.

*Guardian Fiction Prize Finalist, U.K., (International Award), 1993.

Trillium Finalist, Ontario, 1993.

Toronto Arts Council Award for Fiction, 1993.

Ontario Arts Council Award for Works-in-Progress, 1991.

Canada Council Award for Fiction, Ottawa, 1989.

Canada Council Award for Fiction, Ottawa, 1988.

Ontario Arts Council Award for Works-in-Progress, 1988.

Oberon, Best Canadian Stories (for Sluts), Ottawa, 1988.

Toronto Arts Council Award for Fiction, 1986.

Playwright-in-Residence, NECESSARY ANGEL, Toronto, 1985.

Canada Council Award for Fiction, Ottawa, 1984.

Finalist, Governor-General's Award for Fiction and in Best First Novel Contest , Ottawa, 1983.

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