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Michael Crummey was born in Buchans, Newfoundland and grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador. He received a B.A. in English from Memorial University in 1987 and an M.A. from Queen's University in 1988. Crummey stayed in Kingston, Ontario for fourteen years before returning to St. John's where he now lives.

Books by Michael Crummey

	1996 Arguments With Gravity (poetry)
	1998 Flesh & Blood (short stories)
	1998 Hard Light (poetry)
	2001 Emergency Roadside Assistance (poetry)
	2001 River Thieves (novel)
	2002 Salvage (poetry)
	2004 Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation (with Greg Locke, nonfiction)
	2005 The Wreckage (novel)
	2007 Went With (poetry)
	2009 Galore (novel)
	2013 Under the Keel (poetry)
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Awards

• Books in Canada First Novel Award
  • 2001 – River Thieves – Shortlisted

• Giller Prize
  • 2001 – River Thieves – Shortlisted

• Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction
  • 2009 – Galore – Shortlisted
  • 2014 – Sweetland – Shortlisted

• Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 2005 – The Wreckage – Shortlisted

• Timothy Findley Award
  • 2007 – Winner

• Winterset Award
  • 2001 – River Thieves – Winner
  • 2009 – Galore – Shortlisted

Poems Online

• Bread
• Capelin Scull
• Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
• Northern Ontario: Finnish Cemetary
• Rivers/Roads
• What's Lost

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Added 24 May 2006.
Updated 16 October 2014.