David Adams Richards

Canadian author David Adams Richards’ most recent novel, The Lost Highway, was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize 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.