DUBLIN, Ireland – Newfoundland author Michael Crummey has won the prestigious Dublin Literary Award for his novel,
Michael Crummey wins Dublin Literary Award.
DUBLIN, Ireland – Newfoundland author Michael Crummey has won the prestigious Dublin Literary Award for his novel, The Adversary. The awards comes with a €100,000 cheque.(CDN $156,420.) and was announced today at Dublin’s Merrion Square Park. The novel was published by Knopf Canada and tells the story of two siblings who own competing trading companies in a remote part of Newfoundland in the 19th century. In an isolated outport on Newfoundland’s northern coastline, a ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar’s largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce