"I came across an old Newfoundland newspaper and found a paragraph-long account about a clergyman. Michael Crummey wins $25K prize for best Atlantic Canadian fiction.The 2019 novel was also shortlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the 2019 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction.Ĭrummey spoke with Shelagh Rogers about writing The Innocents. The Innocentsis a tale about a young brother and sister who live in isolation in a Newfoundland cove during the 18th century, surviving on knowledge their parents left behind.Ĭrummey won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for his novel The Innocents. His novels Sweetlandand Galore were both set in the region, as is his latest, The Innocents. The fiction of Michael Crummey has revolved around the rich history and heritage surrounding the place of his birth, Newfoundland and Labrador.
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