Michael Crummey Books in Order

Michael Crummey is a celebrated Canadian author, born in Buchans, Newfoundland, where he spent his formative years before moving to Wabush, Labrador, in the late 1970s. He pursued a degree in English at university, discovering his passion for writing through poetry, which earned him the Gregory Power Poetry Award in 1987. This early success led him to publish his first collection of poems, Arguments with Gravity in 1996, followed by Hard Light two years later. Crummey's subsequent works include the short story collection Flesh and Blood, for which he was nominated for the Journey Prize. Crummey's writing career gained momentum with the publication of his debut novel, River Thieves in 2001, a Canadian bestseller that won the Thomas Head Raddall Award and the Winterset Award for Excellence in Newfoundland Writing. His subsequent novels, The Wreckage and Galore, solidified his reputation as a masterful storyteller, earning him numerous accolades, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Canadian Authors' Association Fiction Prize, and the Governor-General's Award nomination.