Michael Crummey

Paul Chafe (Ryerson University)

Ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

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Born 18 Nov 1965
Activity 1985-ongoing

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Born in Canada
Active in Canada

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Poet
Prose writer

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Poet, short-story writer, and novelist, Michael Crummey is a challenging and distinctive voice among a generation of Newfoundland and Labrador writers radically resituating and reconsidering their province and its people, culture, and history. From the earliest days of his writing career, Crummey has been producing award-winning and award-nominated work. As an undergraduate in English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Crummey won first place in the Gregory J. Power Poetry Competition in 1986. In 1994, Crummey won the inaugural Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry, an award for writers under thirty-five years old whose work has been published in anthologies but has yet to appear in a single book. Crummey’s first poetry collection,

Arguments with Gravity

(1996), won the Writers’…

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Citation: Chafe, Paul. "Michael Crummey". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 November 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5381, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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