Crummey is the author of numerous short story collections, poetry and novels. His most recent work, The Adversary, just won ...

“The cemetery ground was hard as flint and the dead were salted with chopped ice in their coffins and kept in a storage room at the fort until graves could be dug in the spring.” In Michael Crummey’s ...

Michael Crummey has won the Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Adversary. The Newfoundland writer will receive €100,000 (approximately $153,610 Cdn) as part of the prize, which is awarded ...

Trudging across the same harsh, icy fictional terrain that's fired the imagination of such writers as William Vollman, Andrea Barrett and Wayne Johnston, Crummey, an award-winning poet (Arguments with ...

Acclaimed Poet and novelist Michael Crummey won Canada's Commonwealth prize for his latest novel, Galore, which chronicles a century of stories, superstitions, strange afflictions, vengeance, and love ...

The Innocents. By Michael Crummey. Doubleday; 289 pages; $26.95. EVERED AND Ada Best are “still youngsters” when their parents die, leaving them alone on the bleak Newfoundland coast. “They were left ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Author Michael Crummey has often explored the rich cultural landscape of his native Newfoundland in his work, which includes poetry, short stories and novels. In his latest novel, ...

Michael Crummey's Galore opens with a man found in the belly of a whale off the coast of Newfoundland. The stories and events that surround this mysterious man, Judah, and the lives that he touches in ...

Michael Crummey's Galore is a magical roundelay of stories and characters, historical and fantastical. It opens with a mysterious man found in the belly of a whale, and goes full-speed from there, ...