David Adams Richards (born 1950) is a Canadian author. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick and is an author of fiction, stage plays, screenplays and poetry. A graduate of St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada. In 1971, he married the former Peggy MacIntyre. They have two sons, John Thomas and Anton, and currently reside in Toronto. Newcastle, New Brunswick was a former town on the Miramichi River in east central New Brunswick, Canada. ... Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope restored) Official languages English, French Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Bernard Lord (PC) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 10 10 Area Total  â€¢ Land  â€¢ Water    (% of total)  Ranked 11th 72 908 km² 71 450 km² 1 458 km... St. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Fredericpolis silvae filia noblis (Fredericton noble daughter of the forest) Established: {{{Established}}} Area: 131. ...

David Adams Richards has received numerous awards including a Gemini Award for scriptwriting for Small Gifts; the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Arts; the Canadian Authors Association Award for his novel Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace and the Governor General's Award for the 1988 novel Nights Below Station Street. He was also a co-winner of the 2000 Giller Prize for Mercy Among the Children. The Gemini Awards are an annual awards ceremony in Canada. ... Since their creation in 1937, the Governor Generals Literary Awards have become one of Canadas most prestigious prizes, awarded in both French and English in seven categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Childrens Literature-Text, Childrens Literature-Illustration, and Translation. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Giller Prize is an annual award that goes to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story fiction collection published in English. ... Mercy Among the Children is a novel by David Adams Richards, published in 2000. ...

Richards is one of only three writers to win both fiction and non-fiction categories of the Governor General's Award. He won the 1988 fiction award for Nights Below Station Street and the 1998 non-fiction award for Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi. Since their creation in 1937, the Governor Generals Literary Awards have become one of Canadas most prestigious prizes, awarded in both French and English in seven categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Childrens Literature-Text, Childrens Literature-Illustration, and Translation. ... Each winner of the 1988 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit received $5000 dollars and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. ... The winners of the 1998 Governor Generals Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts on November 17th in Ottawa. ...

The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick administers an annual David Adams Richards Award for Fiction.

Richards' papers are currently housed at U.N.B..

Works

• Small Heroics (1972) (poetry chapbook)
• The Coming of Winter (1974)
• The Dungarvon Whopper (stage play) (1975)
• Blood Ties (1976)
• Dancers at Night (1978, short fiction)
• Lives of Short Duration (1981)
• Water Carrier, Bones and Earth (stage play) (1983)
• Road to the Stilt House (1985)
• Nights Below Station Street (1988, winner of the 1988 Governor General's Award for fiction)
• Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990)
• For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1993, nominated for a Governor General's Award, winner of the 1994 Thomas Head Raddall Award)
• A Lad From Brantford and Other Essays (1994, essays)
• Hope in the Desperate Hour (1996)
• Hockey Dreams: Memories of a Man Who Couldn't Play (1996, non-fiction)
• Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi (1998, winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award for non-fiction)
• The Bay of Love and Sorrows (1998)
• Mercy Among the Children (2000)
• River of the Broken-Hearted (2004)

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External Links

• [Author Website]
• [David Adams Richards Fonds at U.N.B.]
• [Writers' Federation of New Brunswick]