| Colin McAdam | |
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| Born | Hong Kong |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | • McGill University • University of Toronto • University of Cambridge(Ph.D.) |
| Spouse(s) | Jaclyn Moriarty |
| Partner(s) | Suzanne Hancock |
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www.colinmcadam.com |
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Colin McAdam is a Canadian novelist.
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McAdam was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Barbados, Denmark and England, as well as in several cities in Canada.
McAdam studied English and classics at McGill University, located in Montreal Quebec; and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English literature from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.
McAdam has written for the periodicals Harper's Magazine and The Walrus.
McAdam's first novel, Some Great Thing (2004), won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for English language fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Best First Book), and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the United Kingdom.
His second novel, Fall (2009) won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
McAdam lives in Montreal with poet and former Barzin drummer, Suzanne Hancock. He has a son named Charlie, from an earlier marriage to Australian writer Jaclyn Moriarty, who lives in Australia.