Anne Emery

Last updated
Anne Emery
Born1958 (age 64–65)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada [1]
OccupationAuthor
Genre Crime fiction
Notable awards

Anne Emery is a Canadian writer of murder mystery novels and a lawyer. Emery has been awarded the 2019 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, [2] silver medal in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards, [3] and the 2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. [4] In 2023, Emery's novel Fenian Street was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada Whodunit Award for Best Traditional Mystery. [5] She has published twelve novels in her Collins-Burke mystery series, [6] which features Monty Collins, a Hallifax lawyer, and Father Brennan Burke, a Catholic priest and choirmaster, [7] and a stand-alone novel.

Contents

Personal life

Emery was raised in Moncton, New Brunswick in an Irish Catholic family. [8] She graduated from St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie Law School. [1] During the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, Emery walked every street on the Halifax peninsula, crossing off the final street in September 2020. [9]

Bibliography

Related Research Articles

The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual Canadian literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. The award was established in 1980 to honour poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.

The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $25,000.

The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, are a group of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Crime Writers of Canada for the best Canadian crime and mystery writing published in the previous year. The award is presented during May in the year following publication.

Laurali Rose "Bunny" Wright was a Canadian writer of mainstream fiction and mystery novels. Many of her stories are set on the coast of British Columbia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anthony Bidulka</span> Canadian writer

Anthony Bidulka is a Canadian writer of mystery, thriller and suspense novels. Bidulka's books have been nominated for Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Awards, Saskatchewan Book Awards, a ReLit award, and Lambda Literary Awards. In 2005, he became the first Canadian to win the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery.

The J.M. Abraham Poetry Award, formerly known as the Atlantic Poetry Prize, is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival, to the best work of poetry published by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.

The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Deborah Ellis</span> Canadian fiction writer and activist

Deborah Ellis is a Canadian fiction writer and activist. Her themes are often concerned with the sufferings of persecuted children in the Third World.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Chariandy</span> Canadian writer (born 1969)

David John Chariandy is a Canadian writer and academic, presently working as a professor of English literature at Simon Fraser University. His 2017 novel Brother won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and Toronto Book Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Louise Penny</span> Canadian author

Louise Penny is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). After she turned to writing, she won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha Award for best mystery novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2007–2010), and the Anthony Award for best novel of the year five times, including four consecutive years (2010–2013). Her novels have been published in 23 languages.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rick Mofina</span> Canadian author

Rick Mofina is a Canadian author of crime fiction and thriller novels. He grew up in Belleville, Ontario and began writing short stories in school. He sold his first short story at the age of fifteen. As a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, the International Crime Writers Association, and the Crime Writers' Association and Crime Writers of Canada, Rick continues to be a featured panelist at mystery conferences across the United States and Canada.

Norah McClintock was a Canadian writer of young adult fiction who published more than 60 books. She won five Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence.

John Lawrence Reynolds is a Canadian author. He has published more than 30 fiction and non-fiction books. Three of his novels won the Arthur Ellis Award—The Man Who Murdered God (1990), Gypsy Sins (1994) and Murder Among the Pines (2019). Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he has lived in Burlington for several years.

Yasuko Nguyen Thanh is a Canadian writer and guitarist. She has lived in Canada, Mexico, Germany, and Latin America and she was named one of ten CBC Books' writers to watch in 2013. Thanh completed a Bachelor of Arts as well as a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. She performs with the bands Jukebox Jezebel and 12 Gauge Facial, and lives with her two children in Victoria, British Columbia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ian Hamilton (writer)</span> Canadian mystery writer (born 1946)

William Ian Hamilton is a Canadian mystery writer. A former journalist and civil servant, he has had his work published in Maclean's, Boston, the Regina Leader-Post, the Calgary Albertan, and the Calgary Herald.

Carrie Mac is a Canadian author of more than a dozen novels for Young Adults, both contemporary and speculative. Her latest work is the literary novel, LAST WINTER, due out from Random House Canada in early 2023. She also writes literary short fiction, and creative non-fiction. Some of her accolades include a CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize, and the Arthur Ellis Award, as well as various other awards and recognitions.

Stephen Edward Kimber is a Canadian journalist, editor and broadcaster and professor at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Hilary Davidson is a Canadian and American novelist and journalist. Her novels include The Damage Done (2010), The Next One to Fall (2012), Evil in All Its Disguises (2013), Blood Always Tells (2014), One Small Sacrifice (2019), Don't Look Down (2020), and Her Last Breath (2021). She is also a prolific author of short stories, for which she has won multiple awards.

The Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Novel is an annual literary award, presented as part of the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence program to honour books judged as the best crime novel published by a Canadian crime writer in the previous year.

Karen Bass is a Canadian writer of young adult fiction. Her 2017 novel Grafitti Knight won the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award and Geoffrey Bilson Award. Her 2015 novel Uncertain Soldier also won the Geoffrey Bilson Award.

References

  1. 1 2 "Anne Emery". Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  2. 1 2 van Koeverden, Jane (May 24, 2019). "Anne Emery wins best crime novel award for Though the Heavens Fall". CBC. Archived from the original on 17 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  3. 1 2 "2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results Announcement". Independent Publisher. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Arthur Ellis Awards - 2007 Winners". Crime Writers of Canada. Archived from the original on 2019-08-10. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  5. ↑ "Crime Writers of Canada announces awards shortlists". Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. April 21, 2023. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Six women mystery writers to add to your reading list". Quill and Quire. 2017-10-12. Archived from the original on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  7. 1 2 "Distractions Hinder Barrington Street Blues". Houston Chronicle. 11 May 2008. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  8. ↑ "Six must-read literary ladies". Telegraph-Journal. Saint John, New Brunswick. August 27, 2011. p. F4. ProQuest   885460125.
  9. ↑ DeMont, John (15 September 2020). "Writer finding distraction and inspiration on Halifax's streets". Chronicle-Herald. Halifax, Nova Scotia. p. A5. ProQuest   2442848069.
  10. ↑ "Cecilian Vespers". Quill & Quire. 2 July 2009. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  11. ↑ DeMont, John (September 15, 2020). "Writer finding distraction and inspiration on Halifax's streets". Chronicle Herald.
  12. ↑ "Books: Murder, mayhem and a miracle, too". London Free Press. No. November 29, 2013. Archived from the original on 11 August 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  13. ↑ "2014 Atlantic Book Awards". Atlantic Books Today. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
  14. ↑ Fegan, Heather (2017-03-28). "Anne Emery's Search for a Missing Girl". Atlantic Books Today. Archived from the original on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  15. ↑ "Review: New crime fiction from Peter Robinson, Graham Moore and Anne Emery". Archived from the original on 2017-01-01. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  16. ↑ Hawkin, Wendy (Feb 2, 2019). "Though the Heavens Fall by Anne Emery". Ottawa Review of Books. Archived from the original on August 10, 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
  17. ↑ Barfoot, Joan (2018-10-12). "Ireland's troubles entangle lawyer, priest in Heaven's Fall". London Free Press. Archived from the original on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  18. ↑ Cannon, Margaret (May 24, 2020). "Six new mystery books – including an unintentionally timely epidemic thriller". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
  19. ↑ Cannon, Peter (June 18, 2021). "Fall 2021 Announcements". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 268, no. 25. p. 26. ProQuest   2542948211.
  20. ↑ Lawlor, Allison (June 7, 2022). "The Book Shelf: Murder most foul in Anne Emery's latest mystery novel". SaltWire. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.