Background
Mario was born on December 17, 1941, in Sarajevo, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
editor educator translator poet
Mario was born on December 17, 1941, in Sarajevo, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Mario studied at the University of Sarajevo and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1965. He also studied at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and finished it with a Master of Arts in 1969, Ph.D. in 1973.
Mario worked as an English teacher at the Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. Later, he was an adjunct professor at New York University; also taught at the University of Sarajevo.
His first work, Mothers, Shoes, and Other Mortal Songs, appeared in 1995. In 1998 he published poems Versus Exsul. His most recent collections are Closing Time (2008), Epi/Logos (2011), and Framing Memories (2011).
Mario Susko is a well-known professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College, New York. He is also an editor, poet and translator of major American writers, including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Kurt Vonnegut. His poetry published in various periodicals, including Nassau Review, Seneca Review, and Potato Eyes.
Quotations: “I am ... an author who is displaced and fights literally for his literary survival. One cannot be really accepted as a writer in another language, but one can surely try to remain faithful to one’s own beliefs that language is a creative force, whether it be English, Italian, or Croatian.”
Mario is a member of Croatian Writers’ Union (from 1968); Scientific Committee, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Napoli (Italy).
Susko has a wife, Maria. They have two children: Klea, Alexandria.
