- Alan Cumyn
Alan Cumyn (born 1960) is a Canadian
novelist who lives inOttawa ,Ontario .Alan Cumyn studied at
Royal Roads Military College in 1983, student # 14008 and Queen's University before earning an M.A. in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Windsor. He has lived across Canada and in China and Indonesia, and worked variously as a geologist's assistant, group home manager, tai chi instructor, English teacher, program officer in international development, human rights researcher and freelance writer. Cumyn's fiction focuses on personal and political relations, often in a cross-cultural context. He now lives in Ottawa with his wife and two daughters.Works
*"Waiting for Li Ming" - 1993
*"Between Families and the Sky" - 1995
*"Man of Bone" - 1998 - (Winner of the Ottawa Book Award)
*"Burridge Unbound" - 2000 - shortlisted for the 2000Giller Prize
*"Losing It" - 2001
*"The Secret Life of Owen Skye" - 2002 (Nominated for a Governor General's Award)
*"The Sojourn" - 2003
*"After Sylvia" - 2004 (Nominated for the 2005 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award)
*"The Famished Lover" - 2006 (longlisted for theGiller Prize )External links
* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009982 Alan Cumyn's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.cbc.ca/wordsatlarge/features/feature.php?storyId=190 Online interview from CBC Words at Large]
* [http://www3.sympatico.ca/alan.cumyn Alan Cumyn's web page]
* [http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=263&L=C Writer's Union profile on Alan Cumyn]
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