Colin McAdam (novelist)

Colin McAdam
Born Hong Kong
Occupation Writer
Alma mater   McGill University
  University of Toronto
  University of Cambridge(PhD)
Partner Suzanne Hancock
Website
www.colinmcadam.com

Colin McAdam is a Canadian novelist.

Early life and education

McAdam was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Barbados, Denmark and England, as well as in several cities in Canada.

McAdam studied English and classics at McGill University, located in Montreal Quebec; and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English literature from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. His PhD thesis is a study of translations of Ancient Greek into English in the Seventeenth Century.

Career

McAdam has written for the periodicals Harper's Magazine and The Walrus.

McAdam's first novel, Some Great Thing (2004), won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for English language fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Best First Book), and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the United Kingdom.

His second novel, Fall (2009) won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

His third novel, A Beautiful Truth (2013) won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.[1]

Bibliography

Personal life

McAdam lives in Toronto with poet and former Barzin drummer, Suzanne Hancock. He has two children, one from an earlier marriage.

External links

References

  1. Houpt, Simon (21 November 2013). "Colin McAdam wins Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for 2013". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 21 November 2013.


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