Susan Sellers

Susan Sellers has published several books on gender and women’s writing. She has translated the French feminist Hélène Cixous and edited the British novelist Virginia Woolf. As a creative writer she has published stories, reflections on the practice of writing, and novels including Vanessa and Virginia which has been translated into sixteen languages and adapted for the stage. She is Emeritus Professor at St Andrews University in Scotland where she taught literature and creative writing.

Susan Sellers is writing a novel about the pioneering French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, whose ground-breaking books – many of them autobiographical – transformed the lives of women across the globe. She plans to challenge the idea that de Beauvoir’s work has little to offer contemporary gender and queer debate, and to explore highly topical questions of truth: who controls it, can we trust the stories we read, how can we write truthfully about ourselves and others?