Robert Hough

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Robert Hough^{[pronunciation?]} is a Canadian author. Hough graduated from Queen's University at Kingston in 1985. Following a career as a free-lance magazine journalist, Hough published his first novel titled The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, in 2001.

Published works

• The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (2001). Toronto:
  Commonwealth Writer's Prize and The Trillium Award
  .
• The Stowaway (2004). Toronto: Random House of Canada.
  ISBN 0-679-31146-7. Published internationally, it was listed on The Boston Globe's Top Ten Books of the Year and was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award
  .
• The Culprits (2007). Toronto: Random House of Canada.
  Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  and The Trillium Award.
• Dr. Brinkley's Tower (2012) Toronto: House of Anansi.
  ISBN 978-0-88784-319-8
  . The story of a charlatan's construction of a million-watt radio tower in a small Mexican community, the novel functions as a satire on imperialism and American intervention. It was nominated for the Governor General's Award, and long-listed for the Giller Prize.
• The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan (2015) Toronto: House of Anansi.
  ISBN 978-1-77089-945-2
  An illiterate board game hustler forms an unlikely friendship with the famous privateer, Henry Morgan. It was nominated for the Trillium Award.

• Robert Hough's official website
• Random House Canada publishers
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