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Peter Robinson is the recipient of numerous awards for his Inspector Banks novels, including the prestigious Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for the French translation of In a Dry Season, the Edgar Award for the short story Missing in Action, Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz Award and several Arthur Ellis Awards for best novel. In 2002, he was awarded the Dagger in the Library Award by the Crime Writers’ Association. Robinson was born in Yorkshire, England, and now lives in Toronto. His new book is Before the Poison. © nIaLL MCDIarMID
David Adams Richards’ acclaimed novels include The Lost Highway, The Friends of Meager Fortune, River of the Brokenhearted, and Mercy Among the Children, which won the 2000 Giller Prize. He is the author of the celebrated Miramichi trilogy: Nights Below Station Street, winner of the Governor General’s Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down. His latest novel is Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul.
Olive Senior is a fiction writer, poet, journalist and editor. Her short story collection Summer Lightning won the inaugural Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best book in 1987, and her poetry collection Over the Roofs of the World was a finalist for the 2005 Governor General’s Award for poetry. Born in Jamaica, she has lived in Portugal, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom; she now spends her time in Jamaica and Toronto. Dancing Lessons is her latest novel. AntAnAs sileikA
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Nino Ricci’s first novel, the bestselling Lives of the Saints, garnered international acclaim and won a host of awards, including the Governor General’s Award and the Books in Canada First Novel Award. It was the first installment in a trilogy, rounded out by In a Glass House and Where She Has Gone, which was adapted for a television miniseries. Ricci’s next novel, Testament, won numerous awards. His latest is The Origin of Species, which earned him his second Governor General’s Award.
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Margriet Ruurs is the author of numerous books for children, including Wild Babies and A Pacific Alphabet. She has a master’s degree in education and has spent many years both writing books for children and teaching them about books. She has also spent a great deal of time hiking and camping in the mountains and travelling. She has lived across North America and now makes her home on British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island.
Antanas Sileika is the author of two novels and one collection of linked short stories, Buying on Time, which was nominated for both the City of Toronto Book Award and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. His last novel, Woman in Bronze, was a Globe and Mail Best Book selection. He lives in Toronto, where he is the artistic director for the Humber School for Writers. His new novel, Underground, is set in Lithuania’s resistance movement in the 1940s.
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