Stephen Finucan

Stephen Finucan
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LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanadian
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Stephen Finucan is a Canadian fiction writer.

Life

Finucan graduated from Trent University with a BA in literature and the University of East Anglia with an MA in creative writing. He is an instructor at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, as well as a frequent contributor to The Toronto Star book pages. He currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.[1]

Literary career

Finucan's short stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, including Saturday Night, THIS Magazine, The Sewanee Review, The New Quarterly and B&A. He won the Humber School for Writers Prize in 1997, and was named Write Magazine's New Writer of the Year in 2000. His work has been shortlisted for the Upper Canada Brewing Company's Writer's Craft Award and the Ian St. James Award for Short Fiction.[1] His debut novel, "The Fallen", was chosen as one of CBC Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade.[2]

Works

gollark: It says there's lots of uneconomical-to-extract phosphorous. It would become economical if we actually ran out of easier sources probably.
gollark: Since most plants can't fix atmospheric nitrogen, since they're bad.
gollark: I'm pretty sure they're mostly nitrogen-based and something something Haber-Bosch.
gollark: What's the constraint on making fertilizer? Methane?
gollark: Aren't there a lot more fossil fuels than we could burn without imploding the climate anyway?

References

  1. "Stephen Finucan". Penguin Random House Canada. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  2. "The Verdict Is In: The Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade Revealed". Open Book: Toronto. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 26 February 2019.


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