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Seligman, Ellen
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-25 March 2016
History
Ellen Seligman was a Canadian publisher and literary editor.
Seligman was the editor for many of Canada's leading fiction writers and poets, including: Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Elizabeth Hay, Anne Michaels, Rohinton Mistry, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Peter Robinson, Sheila Watson, Irving Layton, Peter Lang and many more. Of the titles she edited, twenty three went on to win Governor General's Awards, six won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and four won the Man Booker Prize. She was also published the work of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro.
She began her career in publishing in New York City, later joining McClelland and Stewart in 1977 as a senior editor. She was later promoted in to Editorial Director (Fiction) in 1987, and later Publisher (Fiction) and Vice President of the firm in 2000. She later became Senior Vice President and continued to direct the company's fiction publishing after the firm was bought by Random House (now Penguin Random House Canada).
She was the recipient of numerous awards that recognized her skill as an editor and her commitment to Canadian literature and poetry. She was made a member of the Order of Ontario in 2008 and the Order of Canada in 2009.
Seligman died 25 March 2016.
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2016-03-25. Anna St.Onge. Creation.
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- English
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- Latin
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http://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/findaids/fonds/m/mcstew.htm http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/on-behalf-of-ellen-seligmans-family-it-is-with-profound-sadness-that-penguin-random-house-canada-shares-the-news-that-ellen-died-today-573567501.html http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/ellen-seligman-a-top-literary-editor-and-publisher-has-died-penguin-random-house-373572291.html https://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/exhibits/mands_editing http://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/findaids/fonds/m/mcstew.htm