St. Thomas University is a Catholic,English-language liberal arts university located in Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada. It is a primarily undergraduate university offering bachelor's degrees in the arts,education,and social work to approximately 1,900 students. The average class size is 30 and no class is larger than 60.
Raymond Fraser was a Canadian biographer,editor,essayist,memoirist,novelist,poet and short story writer. Fraser published fourteen books of fiction,three of non-fiction,and eight poetry collections. Fraser's writings received positive comments from literary figures Farley Mowat,Irving Layton,Louis Dudek,Alden Nowlan,Sheila Watson,Leonard Cohen,Hugh Garner,and Michael Cook.
George Elliott Clarke is a Canadian poet,playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2016-2017. Clarke's work addresses the experiences and history of the Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,creating a cultural geography coined "Africadia."
Gregory Hollingshead,CM is a Canadian novelist. He was formerly a professor of English at the University of Alberta,and he lives in Toronto,Ontario.
Nino Pio Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto,Ontario. He was born in Leamington,Ontario to Italian immigrants,Virginio and Amelia Ricci,from the province of Isernia,Molise.
Wayne Johnston is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador,often in a historical setting. In 2011 Johnston was awarded the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award in recognition of his overall contribution to Canadian Literature.
Mercy among the Children is a novel by David Adams Richards,published by Doubleday Canada in 2000. Sarah Slean championed the novel to compete in Canada Reads in 2009.
For the Australian professional golfer,see Wayne Grady.
Heather O'Neill is a Canadian novelist,poet,short story writer,screenwriter and journalist,who published her debut novel,Lullabies for Little Criminals,in 2006. The novel was subsequently selected for the 2007 edition of Canada Reads,where it was championed by singer-songwriter John K. Samson. Lullabies won the competition. The book also won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for eight other major awards,including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Governor General's Award and was longlisted for International Dublin Literary Award.
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a novel by Wayne Johnston,published on September 30,1998 by Knopf Canada. Johnston's breakthrough work,the novel was a Canadian bestseller,and was shortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize and the 1998 Governor General's Award for English fiction.
Jerrod Edson is a Canadian novelist. His work has been widely praised by critics,including fellow New Brunswick writer David Adams Richards who said in 2005 that Edson is "one of our best young writers." In 2010,the Telegraph-Journal claimed that Edson is "one of the best New Brunswick writers,period."
Clara Callan is a novel by Canadian writer Richard B. Wright,published in 2001. It is the story of a woman in her thirties living in Ontario during the 1930s and is written in epistolary form,utilizing letters and journal entries to tell the story. The protagonist,Clara,faces the struggles of being a single woman in a rural community in the early 20th century. The novel won the Governor General's Award in the English fiction category,the Scotiabank Giller Prize,and the Trillium Book Award.
For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down is a novel by David Adams Richards,published in 1993. It was the final volume in his Miramichi trilogy,which also included the novels Nights Below Station Street (1988) and Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990).
Suzette Mayr is a Canadian novelist who has written five critically acclaimed novels,and who is currently a professor at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Arts. Mayr's works have both won and been nominated for several literary awards.
Nights Below Station Street is a novel by David Adams Richards,published in 1988. It was the first volume in his Miramichi trilogy,which also included the novels Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990) and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1993).
Road to the Stilt House is a novel by David Adams Richards,published in 1985. The novel centres on Arnold,a teenage boy living in poverty in the Miramichi Valley of New Brunswick,the setting of most of Richards' novels.
Brian Thomas Isaac is a Syilx writer from Canada,whose debut novel All the Quiet Places was published in 2021.
AndréNarbonne is a Canadian writer,whose novel Lucien &Olivia was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize.
Pure Colour is a novel by Canadian author Sheila Heti. Published by Knopf Canada,the book won the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction.
