Liam Durcan

Liam Durcan is a neurologist at the Montreal Neurological Hospital and an Assistant Professor at McGill University.[1] He has published two books, A Short Journey by Car (Vehicule Press 2004)[2] and Garcia's Heart (McClelland & Stewart 2008).[3]

Writing

Garcia’s Heart (McClelland & Stewart 2008)[4] is Durcan's first novel,[5] about Hernan Garcia, a man accused of war-crimes in his native Honduras, and Patrick Lazerenko, a man Hernan had mentored when he was just a boy spray-painting the side of Hernan's variety store.[6] Garcia's Heart won the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel.

A Short Journey by Car (Vehicule Press 2004) was chosen as one of The Globe and Mail's Top 100 books of 2004.[3]Quill & Quire says of Durcan, "even when he’s falling flat, Durcan is a smooth and confident writer. Some hit-and-miss is inevitable in a collection of this breadth, and Short Journey’s good stuff bodes well for the author’s future work."[7]

Durcan's short fiction has been published in The Fiddlehead, Zoetrope, The Antigonish Review, and Maisonneuve.[8][9]

Awards

Durcan won the 2004 QWF/CBC Quebec short story competition for Kick (published in A Short Journey by Car), has been nominated for the Journey Prize,[5] and was long-listed for the 2009 Dublin IMPAC prize for his debut novel, Garcia’s Heart.[10]

References

  1. ↑ McGill Reporter | Liam Durcan: Straddling the worlds of art and science
  2. ↑ Vehicule Press | A Short Journey by Car
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 McClelland & Stewart | Author: Liam Durcan
  4. ↑ Amazon.ca | Garcia's Heart
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Book Lounge | Liam Durcan
  6. ↑ Quill & Quire | Review of Garcia's Heart
  7. ↑ Quill & Quire | Review of A Short Journey by Car
  8. ↑ MacMillan US | Author Liam Durcan
  9. ↑ Fiddlehead No. 214 Winter 2002 American Standard by Liam Durcan
  10. ↑ Montreal Gazette | Liam Durcan Makes IMPAC Long List

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