Background
Susan Gabori was born on June 17, 1947, in Putnok, Hungary. She is a daughter of George Gabori, operator of a knitting factory and a taxicab business, and Judith Gabori, maiden name Varadi, drafter.
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Susan Gabori received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University.
Susan Gabori is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada.
Susan Gabori is a member of the Quebec Writers' Federation.
(With In Search of Paradise, Susan Gabori promotes a deepe...)
With In Search of Paradise, Susan Gabori promotes a deeper understanding of and respect for the immigrant experience. The characters given a voice are Vincenzo, the father, Teresa, his wife, and their children, Franco, Roberto, Angelina, and Michele. Separated by Vincenzo's search for work in Libya and later by World War II, when the children are sent to a fascist school in Northern Italy and Vincenzo is sent to fight the British in Africa, they attempt to retain the bonds of family and culture. Reunited after the war, the economic climate in Italy forces Vincenzo and Franco to leave for Canada in 1950 in search of a better future. They are eventually joined by the rest of the family in Toronto.
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1993
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Susan Gabori continues her series of compelling life stories with Blind Sacrifice, which consists of portraits of eight convicted murderers who have come face to face with themselves. In their own words, they reflect on their backgrounds, their personalities, and motives for their actions. Gabori skillfully focuses on the seemingly unstoppable momentum of events leading to murder and the subsequent radical denouements.
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2000
(In monologues shaped from interviews with twelve terminal...)
In monologues shaped from interviews with twelve terminally ill people, Susan Gabori explores how people try to cope with death. Reflecting on the lives they have led and what still lies before them, each person interviewed for the book deals eloquently, in their own words, with a topic many people cannot bring themselves to discuss freely. The twelve speakers in A Good Enough Life are dying of AIDS, cancer, or ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and range in age from thirty-three to seventy-eight.
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2002
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Susan Gabori was born on June 17, 1947, in Putnok, Hungary. She is a daughter of George Gabori, operator of a knitting factory and a taxicab business, and Judith Gabori, maiden name Varadi, drafter.
In 1967-1970, Susan Gabori attended McGill University and received a Bachelor of Arts. In 1971-1973, she studied at Hornsey College of Art (now Middlesex University) and received a Master of Arts.
In 1973-1975, Susan Gabori worked as a camera operator at the National Film Board of Canada. In 1975, she was a director of documentary programs on CTV (television network). In 2001, she was an instructor in the dramatic nonfiction writing of Quebec Writers' Federation.
Gabori's film scripts include Stripping, Persis Films; Symbiosis, National Film Board of Canada; Mrs. Mudrick (television play), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC); Limits (an anthology of one-hour television dramas), CBC; and When Evils Were Most Free (television miniseries). She was a writer and director of television documentaries, including Survival; Dundas Project, Toronto Board of Education; Open Doors; Shared Destiny, CTV Television; New Romance, National Film Board of Canada; Black Business Women in Montreal, CBC; Prenatal Diagnosis, CBC; Étape travail, National Film Board of Canada; Half Way; Pat; John, National Film Board of Canada; and Being Human, CTV Television.
Her works were represented in anthologies, including Fruits of Experience, Emanation Press, 1980. Gabori is a contributor of short stories and articles to periodicals, including Canadian Woman Studies, Nightshift, Today, Broadcaster, Cinema Canada, and Catholic Digest.
As a writer, Susan Gabori is also famous for her book trilogy. The first part, A Good Enough Life, is about dying. A terminal illness is a very dramatic, cathartic event on an individual level, and the person must face his/her life and his/her coming end. The second part, Blind Sacrifice, is about murderers - about a dramatic event that takes place between the murderer and the murdered, one which the murderer must face. Home Again? will be about people's experiences in World War II and how they have lived with these horrors over the succeeding years. She is interviewing Germans who were in Germany at the time of the war, European Jews who were taken to the concentration camps, a couple of Jewish children who had to hide during the war, a composer who left Germany in 1934 for Singapore and then Shanghai, then landed in Canada, an artist, a Greek Jew who moved to Israel and then to Canada. The book will be divided into five or six sections, and the characters will relate their experiences in each section. Sometimes one character will only talk in one section. The divisions will tentatively cover home before the war, the chaos of the war, liberation, home again, wandering, and setting down roots.
(Susan Gabori continues her series of compelling life stor...)
2000(In monologues shaped from interviews with twelve terminal...)
2002(With In Search of Paradise, Susan Gabori promotes a deepe...)
1993The strongest influence on Susan Gabori has been her work as a documentary film director and film editor. She edits her interviews much like she edited films. Gabori's respect for structure comes from having written film scripts.
Quotations: "There is a certain idealism that drives my writing. I try to find and show people the hope, beauty in dirt, chaos."
Susan Gabori married her second husband Dani Hausmann on August 10, 1991.