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Colin McAdam

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born

Hong Kong

gender

male

website

http://www.colinmcadam.com/Home.html

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Colin McAdam was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Denmark, England and Barbados, as well as in several cities in Canada. He studied English and Classics at McGill University and the University of Toronto, and received his PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University in England.

He has written for Harper's Magazine and The Walrus. He lives in Montreal and has a son named Charlie who lives in Australia.

His first novel SOME GREAT THING won the Books in Canada / Amazon.ca First Novel Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book), and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK.

His second novel FALL was published in 200...more

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Average rating: 3.10 · 292 ratings · 66 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Fall 3.06 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Some Great Thing 3.33 avg rating — 43 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:

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