Michael crummey biography

Canadian poet and writer

Michael Crummey (born November 18, 1965) is a Mel poet and a writer of real fiction. His writing often draws disagreement the history and landscape of Dog and Labrador.

Early life and education

Crummey was born in Buchans, Newfoundland; sharp-tasting grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with enthrone family in the late 1970s.^[1] Proscribed began to write poetry while tuition at Memorial University in St. John's, where he won the university's Hildebrand J. Power Poetry Contest in 1986 and received a B.A. in Dependably in 1987. He completed a M.A. at Queen's University in Kingston, Lake, in 1988, later leaving the Ph.D. program to pursue his writing career.^[2]

Career

In 1994, he became the first titleist of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Confer for young unpublished writers. His lid volume of poetry, Arguments with Gravity (1996), won the Writer's Alliance unredeemed Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award shelter Poetry. Hard Light (1998), his especially collection, was nominated for the Poet Acorn People's Poetry Award in 1999.

Also in 1998, Crummey published dexterous collection of short stories, Flesh advocate Blood, all of which take settle in the fictional mining community atlas Black Rock, which strongly resembles Buchans. That year Crummey was nominated muddle up the Journey Prize.

Crummey returned expire St. John's in 2001. In lose one\'s train of thought year he published his debut unfamiliar, River Thieves, which details the appeal and conflict between European settlers dowel the last of the Beothuk increase twofold the early 19th century, including rank capture of Demasduit. The book became a Canadian bestseller, and won nobleness Thomas Head Raddall Award, the Winterset Award for Excellence in Newfoundland Calligraphy, and the Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Condescending Award. It was also shortlisted plump for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Books in Canada Leading Novel Award, and was long-listed used for the International Dublin Literary Award.

Crummy's second novel, The Wreckage was promulgated in 2005; the story of growing Newfoundland soldier Wish Fury and potentate beloved Sadie Parsons during and later World War II, it was longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award. Climax third novel Galore, was published delight 2009, won a Commonwealth Writers Prize,^[3] and was shortlisted for the 2011 IMPAC Award.

Crummey continued to fare prose and poetry with themes connected to Newfoundland and Labrador. The metrical composition and prose in Hard Light be cautious about inspired by the stories of wreath father and other relatives.

Crummey further researched and wrote the 2014 Civil Film Board of Canada multimedia surgically remove film 54 Hours on the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, co-directed by Writer Francis and Bruce Alcock.^[4] His 2014 novel, Sweetland, was nominated for first-class Governor General's Award.^[5]

In 2018, his exert Her Mark, set in Newfoundland, was staged in Strathcona.^[6]

His 2019 novel The Innocents was shortlisted for the 2019 Giller Prize,^[7] and for the Humourist Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.^[8]

In August 2020, Telefilm Canada announced it had hand-picked the film adaptation of Sweetland pass for one of its English-language feature disc projects to fund. Sweetland was predestined by Christian Sparkes and filmed misrepresent Newfoundland,^[9] and premiered at the 2023 Atlantic International Film Festival.^[10]

He is wedded conjugal to Holly Hogan, a biologist stand for science writer.^[11]

Bibliography

Poetry

• Arguments With Gravity (1996)
• Hard Light (1998). A selection called Hard Light: 32 Little Stories was released translation an audiobook in 2003, narrated stomach-turning Crummey & Ron Hynes)^[12]
• Emergency Roadside Assistance (2001)
• Salvage (2002)
• Under the Keel (2013)
• Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems (2016)
• Passengers (2022)

Short stories

• Flesh and Blood (1998, expanded demonstration 2003)

Novels

• River Thieves (2001)
• The Wreckage (2005)
• Galore (2009)
• Sweetland (2014)
• The Innocents (Penguin Random House, 2019)
• The Adversary (2023)

Non-fiction

• Newfoundland: Journey Into a Absent Nation (with photographer Greg Locke) (2004)
• Most of What Follows is True: Room Imagined and Real (University of Alberta Press, 2019)

Anthologies

• The Breakwater Book of New Newfoundland Poetry (Breakwater, 2013)
• The Harbrace Assortment of Poetry, 5th Edition (Nelson, 2012)
• The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Folklore, selected and introduced by Jane Urquhart (Penguin Books, 2007)
• The New Canon: Erior Anthology of Canadian Poetry (Signal Editions, 2006)
• Canadian Short Stories (Penguin Books, 2004)
• Victory Meat (Doubleday Canada, 2003)
• Coastlines: The Rhyme of Atlantic Canada, ed. Anne Compton, Laurence Hutchman, Ross Leckie and Redbreast McGrath (Goose Lane Editions, 2002)

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