Susan Perly
Canadian journalist and fiction writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Susan Perly is a Canadian journalist and fiction writer, whose novel Death Valley was a longlisted nominee for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[1] A longtime journalist for CBC Radio, she was a producer for Morningside who became best known for her Letters from Latin America series of reports from war zones in Central and South America in the early 1980s,[2] she later created a similar series of reports, Letters from Baghdad, for the network during the 1990 Gulf War.[3] She was also a producer of documentaries for the network's Sunday Morning.
Susan Perly | |
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Occupation | Writer, journalist |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 1980s–present |
Notable works | Love Street, Death Valley |
Spouse | Dennis Lee |
She began publishing short stories in the late 1980s, winning second prize in the short story section of the CBC Literary Awards in 1988.[4] Her first novel, Love Street, was published in 2001,[5] and Death Valley followed in 2016.[3]
She is the daughter of Al and Belle Perly, the founders of the Toronto-based map company Perly's Maps.[6] She is married to poet Dennis Lee.[7]