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- Mercy Among the Children 499 copies, 23 reviews
- River of the Brokenhearted 111 copies, 4 reviews
- The Friends of Meager Fortune 110 copies, 3 reviews
- Nights below Station Street 104 copies, 2 reviews
- The Bay of Love and Sorrows 75 copies, 1 review
- The Lost Highway 70 copies, 4 reviews
- For those who hunt the wounded down 50 copies, 1 review
- Evening snow will bring such peace 41 copies, 4 reviews
- Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi 29 copies, 2 reviews
- Blood Ties (New Canadian Library) 29 copies
- The Coming of Winter 24 copies
- Hope in the Desperate Hour 23 copies
- Lives of Short Duration (New Canadian Library) 22 copies
- Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul 19 copies, 2 reviews
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Truth and Justice: Documentary Fiction about Canada’s First Nations with James Bartleman and David Adams Richards James Bartleman discusses As Long as the Rivers Flow.; David Adams Richards discusses Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul. Two of Canada’s most gifted storytellers shed an intimate light on the unpleasant and inescapable treatment of our First Nations. From James Bartleman, the accomplished memoirist and former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, comes a first novel of incredible heart and spirit. As Long as the Rivers Flow tells the story of a girl from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is “stolen” from her family at the age of six and flown far away to residential school. When a terrible accident unsettles the peace in a small, tight-knit community, who will pay the price? Searing, brilliant and tension-filled, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul by David Adams Richards, winner of the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, is a foreboding tale about truth, lies and justice. Tickets $15 / $10 reduced. Free for festival members. (thebookpile)… (more) David Adams Richards David Adams Richards reads from Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul. David Adams Richards' most recent novel, The Lost Highway, was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2008. The Friends of Meager Fortune won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (Canada and the Caribbean). His novel River of the Brokenhearted received immense... critical acclaim. Mercy Among the Children won the 2000 Giller Prize and was nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award. He is the author of the celebrated Miramichi trilogy: Nights Below Station Street, winner of the Governor General's Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down. He will be joing us for a reading, book signing, and refreshments to launch his newest novel, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul (tardis)… (more)
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | David Adams Richards (born October 17, 1950) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet.
Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, one course shy of completing a B.A.* Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada, including the University of New Brunswick.
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 1971, he married the former Peggy MacIntyre. They have two sons, John Thomas and Anton Richards, and currently reside in Fredericton.
John Thomas was born in 1989 in Saint John, New Brunswick.
The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick administers an annual David Adams Richards Award for
Fiction.
Richards' papers are currently housed at the University of New Brunswick.  * David Adams Richards was awarded his B.A. by Saint Thomas University in 2009. Source: David Adams Richards' sister Susan Marshall. | |
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