Sue Burke
Sue Burke is an American writer and translator. She has written the science fiction Semiosis trilogy, Semiosis, Interference, and Usurpation. Semiosis attracted favorable attention and acclaim and appeared on numerous lists of the best books of 2018.
Awards
In 2017, Burke received the Alicia Gordon Award for Word Artistry in Translation from the American Translators Association for her English translation of an excerpt from Joseph de la Vega’s Confusión de confusiones, written in Spanish in 1688. The book, the first analysis of stock markets ever written, was a commission from Bolsas y Mercados Españoles for an institutional gift.Personal life
Burke grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin. She moved with her husband, a trilingual businessman, to Madrid, Spain, in December 1999. She moved to Chicago in July 2016.Novels
- Semiosis trilogy
- * Semiosis
- * Interference
- * Usurpation
- Standalone
- * Immunity Index
- * ''Dual Memory''
Short fiction
;Stories| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
| Who Won the Battle of Arsia Mons? | 2017 | Novelette | ||
| Life from the Sky | 2018 | Novelette | ||
| "Summer Home" | 2014 |
Translations
- Amadis of Gaul Book I – translation from the Spanish of Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
- Confusion of Confusions – translation from the Spanish of Confusión de Confusiones by Joseph de la Vega
- Amadis of Gaul Book II – translation from the Spanish of Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
- Amadis of Gaul Book III – translation from the Spanish of Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
- Canción Antigua – An Old Song: Anthology of Poems – with Christian Law, translation from the Spanish of poems by Vicente Núñez
- Amadis of Gaul Book IV – translation from the Spanish of Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo