His other books include the nonfiction book Lord High Executioner and the novel Mr. Engel's memoir The Man Who Forgot How to Read also documents his experience with the condition. In July 2001, Engel suffered a stroke, losing his ability to read, in a condition known as Alexia sine agraphia. The late Howard Engel remained a prolific writer, even when he could no longer read.Catharines - who confronted murder cases with a sardonic, unassuming ease. The first book, The Suicide Murders, introduced readers to an eccentric small town investigator from the fictional town of Grantham, Ont. - inspired by St. The Benny Cooperman series, which included more than 10 titles, began in 1980. (Submitted by Writers' Trust of Canada)Ĭanadian Howard Engel was the author of the Benny Cooperman detective novels and the co-founder of the Crime Writers of Canada. Howard Engel was an award-winning Canadian crime writer and author of the Benny Cooperman detective series. In 2005, Choy was made a member of the Order of Canada. He has also written two autobiographical works, Paper Shadows, and Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying. His novel All That Matters won the Trillium Book Award in 2005 and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2004. Wayson Choy, author of The Jade Peony, dead at 80 Choy was an important voice in portraying the lives and culture of Chinese Canadians. The Jade Peony is set in Vancouver's Chinatown in the late 1930s and early 1940s and looks at a family of Chinese immigrants living in that time through the eyes of their three children. His first novel, The Jade Peony, received the Trillium Book Award in 1995 and was a finalist in Canada Reads 2010, when it was defended by Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child. (John Beebe/Douglas & McIntyre)Ĭanadian Wayson Choy was a Giller Prize-nominated novelist, memoirist and short story writer. Wayson Choy was a Giller Prize-nominated novelist, memoirist and short story writer. In 2014, Lane was made an officer of the Order of Canada in honour of his vast and accomplished body of work. With his wife Lorna Crozier, a fellow Governor General's Literary Award recipient, he published the collection No Longer Two People. Other books include Winter and Mortal Remains - which were consecutively shortlisted for Governor General's Literary Awards - and Too Spare, Too Fierce, winner of the 1995 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. It was followed by books such as Separations in 1969, Beware the Months of Fire in 1974 and Poems, New and Selected, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry in 1978. Lane's first collection Letters from a Savage Mind was published in 1966. (Chris Hancock Donaldson)Ĭanadian writer Patrick Lane wrote award-winning poetry that was was celebrated for its beautiful writing and deft examination of the human condition. Patrick Lane was an award-winning Canadian poet and novelist.
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