The announcement was made this evening at an awards ceremony held at the Toronto Reference Library. It’s the second time she has won the award. He still lives in his hometown of Toronto.Dionne Brand has been awarded the Toronto Book Award for her novel Theory, published by Knopf Canada. Fagans work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Turkish, Russian, Polish, Chinese, Korean and Persian. Christie Silver Medal, the Joan Betty Stuchner-Oy Vey!-Funniest Childrens Book Award, and the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People. He is also an acclaimed writer of books for children, having won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the IODE Jean Throop Book Award, a Mr. He has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Writers Trust Fiction Award, the Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction, and has won the Toronto Book Award and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Literary Review of Canada About the Author Cary Fagan is the author of eight previous novels and five books of short stories, including The Student, Great Adventures for the Faint of Heart, and A Birds Eye. Even those of us who werent there can feel it. Fagan has created an accurate portrait of two key moments in history. The truth of their struggles, the pain of their suffering, their resistance to-and activism in shaping-the society and history pressing in around them. Review Quotes It is the richness of his characters, his insistence on revealing their full humanity, that resonates from one generation to the next. and that living with a wolf is not a very good idea. A realist novel with the air of a fairy tale, The Animals is a surprising, funny, and thought-provoking story that explores the nature of relationships faunal and human, and reminds us of the challenges of finding ones place in society. When fire breaks out, Dorn takes on the unlikely role of hero in the hope of changing the course of his life. Soon, Dorn receives a mysterious commission, finds a body in a park, and has several run-ins with a former classmate-turned police officer. Life takes a strange turn when the government-sponsored Wild Home Project is introduced and wolves, rats, minks, otters, and bears move into villagers homes. Yet life is far from idyllic he suffers under the thumb of a rich, philandering younger brother and an unloving father, and cannot find the courage to admit his love to Ravenna, the ungainly schoolteacher. Book Synopsis In a quaint tourist village, Dorn makes miniature scale models displayed in the local shops.

The Student by Cary Fagan