Michael Crummey
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Michael Crummey is a Canadian writer.
Born Buchans, Newfoundland and Labrador, Crummey was educated at Memorial University. While there he began writing poetry and, in 1986, won a university-sponsored poetry contest. He subsequently attended Queen's University for graduate studies, and lived in Kingston, Ontario until 2002 when he moved back to St. John's. He currently resides there.
In 1994, he was the first winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award, given to young Canadian writers not yet published in book form. He subsequently published his first volume of poetry, Arguments with Gravity, in 1996.
Crummey's debut novel, River Thieves, was a Canadian bestseller in 2001. The novel was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was a winner of the Thomas Head Raddall Award. Crummey's second novel, The Wreckage, is longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Poetry
- Arguments With Gravity (1996)
- Hard Light (1998)
- Salvage (2002)
[edit] Short stories
- Flesh & Blood (1998)
[edit] Novels
- River Thieves (2001)
- The Wreckage (2005)
[edit] Nonfiction
- Newfoundland: Journey Into a Lost Nation (with photographer Greg Locke) (2004)
