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Colin McAdam is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Denmark, England and Barbados, as well as in several cities in Canada. He studied English and classics at McGill University and the University of Toronto, and received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Cambridge in England.

He has written for Harper's Magazine and The Walrus. He currently lives in Montreal with poet and former Barzin drummer, Suzanne Hancock. He has a son named Charlie, from an earlier marriage to Australian writer Jaclyn Moriarty, who lives in Australia.

His first novel, Some Great Thing, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for English language fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best First Book), and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK. His second novel, Fall, was published in 2009. It won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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