Colin
McAdam
Colin McAdam has written for Harper’s and The Walrus. He is a past winner of the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize, and has been a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Governor General’s Literary Award. McAdam was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2004 for his first novel, Some Great Thing. He lives in Toronto.
Videos
Colin McAdam on A Beautiful Truth
Award History
Jury Citation
“In prose both strange and startling, Colin McAdam asks what, if anything, separates the human from the animal; he answers with heartbreaking honesty. A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam tells the story of Judy and Walt, of their adopted chimpanzee Looee, and of a whole cast of other primates at a research institute in Florida. This is the kind of book you finish just to pick back up again, if only to figure out how he pulled it off.” — 2013 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury (Caroline Adderson, Alison Pick, and Miguel Syjuco)
