- David Adams Richards
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David Adams Richards Born 17 October 1950
Newcastle, New Brunswick, CanadaOccupation writer Nationality Canadian Education St. Thomas University (incomplete) Notable award(s) Order of Canada
Governor General's Award
Gemini Award
Giller PrizeChildren 2 David Adams Richards, CM, ONB (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet.
Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, three credits shy of completing a B.A..[1] Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada, including the University of New Brunswick. He is currently the Artist in Residence at St. Thomas University.
Richards has received numerous awards including 2 Gemini Awards for scriptwriting for Small Gifts and "For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down", the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the Canadian Authors Association Award for his novel Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace. Richards is one of only three writers to have won in both the fiction and non-fiction categories of the Governor General's Award. He won the 1988 fiction award for Nights Below Station Street and the 1998 non-fiction award for Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi. He was also a co-winner of the 2000 Giller Prize for Mercy Among the Children. In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to the Canadian literary scene as an essayist, screenwriter and writer of fiction and non-fiction".[2] In 2011 he received the Matt Cohen Prize.
In 1971, he married the former Peggy McIntyre. They have two sons, John Thomas and Anton Richards, and reside in Fredericton as of December 2009.[3][4]
The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick administers an annual David Adams Richards Prize for Fiction.[5]
Richards' papers are currently housed at the University of New Brunswick.[6]
Contents
Bibliography
Novels
- The Coming of Winter (1974)
- Blood Ties (1976)
- Lives of Short Duration (1981)
- Road to the Stilt House (1985)
- Nights Below Station Street (1988, winner of the 1988 Governor General's Award for fiction)
- Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990)
- For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1993, nominated for a Governor General's Award, winner of the 1994 Thomas Head Raddall Award)
- Hope in the Desperate Hour (1996)
- The Bay of Love and Sorrows (1998)
- Mercy Among the Children (2000) (co-winner of the Giller Prize)
- River of the Broken-Hearted (2004)
- The Friends of Meager Fortune (2006) (longlisted for the Giller Prize)
- The Lost Highway (2007) (longlisted for the Giller Prize, Nominated Governor General's Awards 2008 Governor General's Award)
- Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul (2011)
Poetry
- Small Heroics (1972) (chapbook)
Plays
- The Dungarvon Whooper (1975)
- Water Carrier, Bones and Earth (1983)
- Hockey Dreams (2009)
Short stories
- Dancers at Night (1978)
- Dane (1978)
Non-fiction
- A Lad From Brantford and Other Essays (1994)
- Hockey Dreams: Memories of a Man Who Couldn't Play (1996)
- Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi (1998, winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award)
- Extraordinary Canadians: Lord Beaverbrook (2008)
- God is. (2009)
References
General
- "Non-Judgmental Truth: An Interview with David Adams Richards" by Craig Proctor, Blood & Aphorisms (Winter 1998)
Notes
- ^ Zenari, Vivian. "David Adams Richards". Athabasca University - Centre for Language and Literature. http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/darichards.html. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- ^ "Governor General Announces 57 New Appointments to the Order of Canada". Office of the Secretary to the Governor General. 30 December 2009. http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=13469. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- ^ "Books: The Friends of Meager Fortune". Random House. http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385660952. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- ^ "Adams Richards named to Order of Canada". The Daily Gleaner. 31 December 2009. http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/905583. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- ^ "24 Years of WFNB Literary Competition Winners!". Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. http://www.umce.ca/wfnb/wnners.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- ^ "David Adams Richards fonds". University of New Brunswick. http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/finding/richards/intro.html. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
External links
- David Adams Richards at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- "David Adams Richards - Lord Beaverbrook" (mp3). The Brad Brooks Show (CKNW). 18 May 2008. http://thebradbrooksshow.com/guests/past-guests/48-may-18-2008-david-richards-adams-lord-beaverbrook/. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- CBC Digital Archives – David Adams Richards, Canada Reads author
Scotiabank Giller Prize - M.G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets (1994)
- Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995)
- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1996)
- Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version (1997)
- Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
- Bonnie Burnard, A Good House (1999)
- Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost / David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children (2000)
- Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001)
- Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (2002)
- M.G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003)
- Alice Munro, Runaway (2004)
- David Bergen, The Time in Between (2005)
- Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2006)
- Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air (2007)
- Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (2008)
- Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man (2009)
- Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists (2010)
- Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (2011)
Categories:- 1950 births
- Living people
- Canadian novelists
- Writers from New Brunswick
- Members of the Order of New Brunswick
- Members of the Order of Canada
- Governor General's Award winning fiction writers
- Governor General's Award winning non-fiction writers
- People from Miramichi, New Brunswick
- People from Northumberland County, New Brunswick
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