Awards & Winners

David Adams Richards

Date of Birth 17-October-1950
Place of Birth Newcastle
(Canada, Miramichi)
Nationality Canada
Profession Writer, Poet, Novelist, Screenwriter
David Adams Richards, CM, ONB is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet. Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, three credits shy of completing a BA. Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada, including the University of New Brunswick. He is currently the Artist in Residence at St. Thomas University. Richards has received numerous awards including 2 Gemini Awards for scriptwriting for Small Gifts and "For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down", the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the Canadian Authors Association Award for his novel Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace. Richards is one of only three writers to have won in both the 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. He was also a co-winner of the 2000 Giller Prize for Mercy Among the Children. In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to the Canadian literary scene as an essayist, screenwriter and writer of fiction and non-fiction". In 2011 he received the Matt Cohen Prize.

Awards by David Adams Richards

Check all the awards nominated and won by David Adams Richards.

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction The lost highway

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Mercy among the Children

1998


Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-series
Honored for : For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction
Honored for : Lines on the Water

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction Lines on the Water
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Mini-series For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down

1988


Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
Honored for : Nights Below Station Street

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Nights Below Station Street

1985


Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Road to the Stilt House