Roy MacSkimming
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Roy MacSkimming | |
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Roy MacSkimming is a Canadian novelist, non-fiction writer and cultural policy consultant.
He was educated at the
MacSkimming has written two novels with European settings: Formentera (1972), set in the Balearic Islands, and Out of Love (1993), set in Athens and Crete. He has also written Gordie: A Hockey Legend (1994), an unauthorized biography of Gordie Howe; and Cold War (1996), a reassessment of the 1972 Canada-Soviet hockey series.
MacSkimming draws on his professional lifetime in and around the publishing industry in The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada's Writers (2003).[1] The title was nominated for the National Business Book Award, and was a Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year. It was reissued by McClelland & Stewart in an updated paperback edition in 2007.
MacSkimming's third novel, Macdonald, based on the final days of Canada's founding prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald, was published in 2007.[2] His most recent novel is Laurier in Love (2010), based on the tangled love life of Canadian prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
MacSkimming lives near Perth, Ontario.
Bibliography
Fiction
Poetry
- Shoot Low, Sheriff, They're Riding Shetland Ponies (with William Hawkins). Independent, 1964[3]
Novels
- Formentera. Toronto: New Press, 1972
- Out of Love. Dunvegan, ON: Cormorant Books, 1993
- Macdonald. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2007
- Laurier in Love. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2010
Non-Fiction
- On Your Own Again Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992. (with Keith Anderson)
- Gordie: An Unauthorized Biography of Gordie Howe. Vancouver: Greystone, 1994, 2003.
- Cold War: The Amazing Canada-Soviet Hockey Series of 1972. Vancouver: Greystone, 1996.
- The Perilous Trade: Publishing Canada’s Writers. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 2003, 2007.
Awards
- Finalist, National Magazine Awards, 1996
- Finalist, Ottawa-Carleton Book Award, 1996 - Cold War
- Janice E. Handford Small Press Award for contributions to Canadian book publishing, 1998
- Globe and Mail 100 Notable Books of the Year, 2003 - The Perilous Trade
- Finalist, National Business Book Award, 2003 - The Perilous Trade
References
- ^ Medley, Mark (2010) "Picturing Canada", National Post, May 27, 2010, retrieved 2010-10-31
- ^ "Required Reading", Ottawa Citizen, September 30, 2007, retrieved 2010-10-31
- ^ A 56-page self-stapled paperback. See "poetry and words" at www.wmhawkins.com.
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