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- Personal life
- Prizes and honours Novels for adults Children's fiction Short stories Non-fiction As editor
- References
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{{BLP sources|date=October 2010}}Cary Fagan (born 1957) is a Canadian writer of novels, short stories, and children's books. His short-story collection, My Life Among the Apes, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and his widely praised adult novel, A Bird's Eye, was shortlisted for the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Previously, his novel Valentine's Fall was nominated for the 2010 Toronto Book Award.[1] Since publishing his first original children's book in 2001, he has published 25 children's titles.[2]Personal lifeFagan was born in 1957 in Toronto, Ontario. He grew up in the Toronto suburbs and attended the University of Toronto, graduating with a degree in English and winning eight student awards.[3] He has lived for short periods in London and New York City, and now lives in Toronto. He is married to Rebecca Comay, a member of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. He has two daughters and two step-sons. Along with Bernard Kelly and Rebecca Comay, he co-publishes and edits a small press, called espresso. Fagan has received a Toronto Book Award, two Jewish Book Awards, and a Mr Christie silver medal.[4] Prizes and honours- 1994 Jewish Book Award for Fiction (The Animals' Waltz)
- 2004 World Storytelling Award (U.S.) (The Market Wedding)
- 2009 Quill & Quire Book of the Year (Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas)
- 2013 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award (Mr. Zinger's Hat)
- 2014 Vicki Metalf Award for Children's Literature (body of work)
- Runners-up, etc.
- 1990 Finalist, Toronto Book Awards (City Hall and Mrs. God)
- 2000 Sydney Taylor Honor Book (U.S.) (The Market Wedding)
- 2004 Silver Birch Award Honour Book (The Fortress of Kaspar Snit)
- 2008 Finalist, TD Canadian Children's Literature Award (Thing-Thing)
- 2008 Silver Birch Express Award Honour Book (Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit)
- 2008 Finalist, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award (Thing-Thing)
- 2010 Finalist, Toronto Book Awards (Valentine's Fall)
- 2012 Longlist, Scotiabank Giller Prize (My Life Among the Apes)
- 2013 Finalist, Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize ("A Bird's Eye")
- 2015 Finalist, John Spray Mystery Award ("The Show to End all Shows")
==Published books== Novels for adults- The Animals' Waltz: a novel (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1994)
- Sleeping Weather (Porcupine's Quill, 1997)
- Felix Roth (Stoddart Books, 1999)
- The Mermaid of Paris (Key Porter Books, 2003)
- Valentine's Fall (Cormorant Books, 2010)
- A Bird's Eye (House of Anansi, 2013)
Children's fiction- Gogol's Coat (Tundra Books, 1999), illustrated by Regolo Ricci, adapted from "The Overcoat" by Gogol
- The Market Wedding (Tundra, 2000), illus. Regolo Ricci, from Abraham Cahan
- Daughter of the Great Zandini (Tundra, 2001), illus. Cybèle Young
- Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina's Life (Tundra, 2002), by Fagan and Chan Hon Goh, autobiographical
- The Fortress of Kaspar Snit (Tundra, 2004), novel
- Ten Old Men and a Mouse (Tundra, 2007), illus. Gary Clement
- My New Shirt (Tundra, 2007), illus. Dušan Petričić
- Directed by Kaspar Snit (Tundra, 2007), sequel novel
- Mr. Karp's Last Glass (Tundra, 2007), illus. Selçuk Demirel
- Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit (Tundra, 2008), sequel novel
- Thing-Thing (Tundra, 2008), illus. Nicolas Debon
- Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas (Tundra, 2009), illus. Dušan Petričić
- Book of Big Brothers (Groundwood Books, 2010), illus. Luc Melanson
- The Big Swim (Groundwood, 2010), novel
- Banjo of Destiny (Groundwood, 2011), illus. Selçuk Demirel
- Ella May and the Wishing Stone (Tundra, 2011), illus. Geneviève Côté
- Mr. Zinger's Hat (Tundra, 2012), illus. Dušan Petričić
- The Boy in the Box (Penguin Canada, 2012), novel; Master Melville's Medicine Show, book 1
- Danny, Who Fell in a Hole (Groundwood, 2013), illus. Milan Pavlovic
- Oy, Feh, So (Groundwood, 2013), illus. Gary Clement
- I Wish I Could Draw (Groundwood, 2014), "words and (bad) pictures by Cary Fagan", {{OCLC|881253673}}
- Little Blue Chair (Tundra, 2017), illus. Madelie Kloepper
- A Cage Went in Search of a Bird (Groundwood, 2017), illus. Banafsheh Erfanian
- Wolfie & Fly (Tundra, 2017), illus. Zoe Si
- Mort Ziff is Not Dead (Penguin Canada)
Short stories- History Lessons (Hounslow, 1990)
- The Little Black Dress: tales from France (Mercury Press, 1993)
- The Doctor's House and other Fiction (Stoddart, 2000)
- My Life Among the Apes (Cormorant, 2012)
- The Old World and Other Stories (Anansi, 2017)
Non-fiction- City Hall and Mrs. God: A Passionate Journey Through a Changing Toronto (Mercury Press, 1990)
As editor- Streets of Attitude: Toronto stories (Toronto: Yonge & Bloor, 1990), {{OCLC|247188080}}
- A Walk by the Seine: Canadian poets on Paris (Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1995), {{OCLC|635872651}}
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.toronto.ca/book_awards/index.htm |title=Toronto Book Awards - Awards - Living In Toronto | City of Toronto |publisher=Toronto.ca |date= |accessdate=2015-07-23}}
2. ^Quill & Quire, January 2008.
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.caryfagan.com/about_me.html |title=About Me |publisher=Caryfagan.com |date= |accessdate=2015-07-23}}
4. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20130831145954/http://www.cormorantbooks.com/authors/fagancary.shtml "Cary Fagan"]. Cormorant Books. Archived 2013-08-31. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
External links- {{official website |caryfagan.com}}
- paperplates books
- espresso
- {{isfdb name|37786}}
- {{LCAuth|n90647076|Cary Fagan|25|ue}}
- My Father's Picasso Published on Geist Magazine
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