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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)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1998 Flesh & Blood (short stories)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	1998 Hard Light (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2001 River Thieves (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2002 Salvage (poetry)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2004 Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation (with Greg Locke, nonfiction)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
	2005 The Wreckage (novel)	Amazon.ca Amazon.com Biblio.com
	2009 Galore (novel)	Amazon.ca Biblio.com
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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

• 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

Added 24 May 2006.
Updated 04 March 2010.