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Alan Cumyn | |
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| Born | 8 January 1960 Ottawa |
| Allegiance | Canada |
| Service/ | Canadian Forces |
| Awards | Writers' Trust of Canada's Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People |
| Other work | Novelist |
Alan Cumyn (born 8 January 1960) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Born in Ottawa, Alan Cumyn studied at Royal Roads Military College in 1983, and Queen's University before earning an M.A. in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Windsor. [1] He has lived across Canada and in China and Indonesia, and worked variously as a geologist's assistant, group home manager, tai chi instructor, English teacher, program officer in international development, human rights researcher and freelance writer. Cumyn's fiction focuses on personal and political relations, often in a cross-cultural context. He now lives in Ottawa with his wife and two daughters.
In 2016 he won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People for his body of work. [2] [3]
Jane Urquhart, Order of Canada OC is a Canadian novelist and poet born in Geraldton, Ontario. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her evocative style which blends history with the present day. Her first novel, The Whirlpool, gained her international recognition when she became the first Canadian to win France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger. Her subsequent novels were even more successful. Away, published in 1993, won the Trillium Award and was a national bestseller. In 1997, her fourth novel, The Underpainter, won the Governor General's Literary Award.
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