Tim
Bowling
A native of the West Coast and current resident of Edmonton, Tim Bowling has authored 10 collections of poetry, two works of nonfiction, and four novels. His 2007 memoir, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture, was shortlisted for the Nereus Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize.
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Tim Bowling on The Tinsmith
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Jury Citation
“Lyrical in both its beauty and its horror, The Tinsmith reveals a writer at the height of his powers. From the battlefields of the American Civil War to the salmon canning wars in British Columbia, Bowling creates vivid worlds that move us. In John Dare — the heir to both of these conflicts — we meet a character of great moral complexity, a man trying to come to grips with the mystery at the heart of his identity. Bowling’s vision is grand, fierce, and bloody.” — 2012 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury (Lynn Coady, Esi Edugyan, and Drew Hayden Taylor)2007 - Finalist
Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
for The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture
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