Alan Cumyn

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Alan Cumyn
Born8 January 1960
Ottawa
Allegiance Canada
Service / branch Canadian Forces
Awards Writers' Trust of Canada's Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
Other workNovelist

Alan Cumyn (born 8 January 1960) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Biography

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 Alan Cumyn's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
  2. ↑ "Eden Robinson, Gregory Scofield, Yasuko Thanh among 2016 Writers' Trust Prize winners". CBC Books, November 2. 2016.
  3. ↑ "Photos: Writers' Trust Awards 2016". Quill and Quire. 2016-11-07.
  4. ↑ Cumyn, Alan (2019-12-03). North to Benjamin. ISBN   978-1-4814-9753-4.
  5. ↑ "North to Benjamin". quillandquire.com. 2018-11-05.
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