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David Adams Richards CM ONB (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer [2] and member of the Canadian Senate. [3] Background. Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, three credits shy of completing a BA. [4] .
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David Adams Richards was the third of six children born to Margaret Adams and Bill Richards, who ran a movie theatre business in Newcastle, New Brunswick. Until the third grade, David Adams Richards attended St. Mary’s Academy, a Catholic primary school. He completed the rest of his primary, middle and high school education at Harkins Academy, a pu...
Richards’ first publications were poems, collected in the privately printed One Step Inside (1972) and the chapbook Small Heroics (1972). His first novel, The Coming of Winter (1974), introduces his Miramichi “homeground.” The sparse naturalism of the prose and plot were critically praised, and the first few chapters won the Norma Epstein Award for...
Richards followed Road to the Stilt House with a trilogy of critically acclaimed novels: Nights Below Station Street (1988), which won the Governor General’s Literary Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace (1990); and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down(1993). This trilogy, connected primarily through setting and recurring characters, focuses on...
In 2008, Richards published Lord Beaverbrook, a short biography of Sir William Maxwell Aitken, the Canadian business mogul, for Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians Series. His next book was also a work of non-fiction, God Is.: My Search for Faith in a Secular World (2009). Part memoir, part essay, it explores the role faith has played in Richards’ li...
Often considered a “regional” writer, Richards resists that label, calling his passionate and generous work “a great defence of the people I grew up with.” Through the characters of his fictionalized Miramichi, David Adams Richards explores conflicts between families with long community histories, the long-term consequences of errors in judgment, t...
Richards has also worked as a screenwriter. His works include the original screenplay Small Gifts (1994) and screen adaptations of For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1996) and Nights Below Station Street (1997). He has two received Gemini Awards, for his original screenplay Small Gifts and for his adaptation of For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down...
On 30 August 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeaunamed David Adams Richards to the Senate as a representative of the province of New Brunswick. “His dedication to the arts, his love of place and country will be an extraordinary asset to the independent thinkers in the Senate,” the Prime Minister said in a press conference following the appointment. ...
Richards is one of the few Canadian writers to be awarded a Governor General’s Literary Award in both the fiction and non-fiction categories: in 1988 he won for his novel Nights Below Station Street,and in 1998 he won the non-fiction prize for Lines on the Water: A Fisherman’s Life on the Miramichi. In 1992, he received the Canada-Australia Literar...
Fiction Prize (Nights Below Station Street), Governor General’s Literary Awards(1988)Honorary Doctor of Laws, LL D., St. Thomas University(1990)Canadian Authors Association Award (Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace) (1991)Canada-Australia Literary Prize (1992)Mar 14, 2023 · A former boss of the Dreamboys stripper group who tried to murder his wife with an axe has died in prison. David Richards was handed a 27-year sentence in January after fracturing Alex Alam's skull in a carefully planned attack following the breakdown of their relationship.
Aug 21, 2023 · David Adams Richards is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, essayist, poet, senator and member of the Order of Canada. In 1988, Richard's novel Nights Below Station Street...
David Richards, who was the former boss of the Dreamboys stripper group, was sentenced in January for attacking Alex Alam with an axe at her home in Essex. A spokeswoman for HMP Lowdham...
David Adams Richards is an acclaimed Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet, whose commitment to the Miramichi River valley, his province, and the country is reflected in his body of work.
Jan 12, 2023 · A former boss of the Dreamboys stripper group has been jailed for 27 years for the attempted murder of his wife. David Richards, 42, attacked Alex Alam with an axe at her home in Stock,...
