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Cary Fagan (born 1957) is a Canadian writer of novels, short stories, and children's books. His short-story collection, My Life Among the Apes, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and his widely praised adult novel, A Bird's Eye, was shortlisted for the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Previously, his novel Valentine's Fall was nominated for the 2010 Toronto Book Award.^[1] Since publishing his first original children's book in 2001, he has published 25 children's titles.^[2]

Personal life

Fagan was born in 1957 in Toronto, Ontario. He grew up in the Toronto suburbs and attended the University of Toronto, graduating with a degree in English and winning eight student awards.^[3] He has lived for short periods in London and New York City, and now lives in Toronto. He is married to Rebecca Comay, a member of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. He has two daughters and two step-sons. Along with Bernard Kelly and Rebecca Comay, he co-publishes and edits a small press, called espresso.

Fagan has received a Toronto Book Award, two Jewish Book Awards, and a Mr Christie silver medal.^[4]

Prizes and honours

• 1994 Jewish Book Award for Fiction (The Animals' Waltz)


• 2004 World Storytelling Award (U.S.) (The Market Wedding)


• 2009 Quill & Quire Book of the Year (Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas)


• 2013 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award (Mr. Zinger's Hat)


• 2014 Vicki Metalf Award for Children's Literature (body of work)

Runners-up, etc

• 1990 Finalist, Toronto Book Awards (City Hall and Mrs. God)


• 2000 Sydney Taylor Honor Book (U.S.) (The Market Wedding)


• 2004 Silver Birch Award Honour Book (The Fortress of Kaspar Snit)


• 2008 Finalist, TD Canadian Children's Literature Award (Thing-Thing)


• 2008 Silver Birch Express Award Honour Book (Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit)


• 2008 Finalist, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award (Thing-Thing)


• 2010 Finalist, Toronto Book Awards (Valentine's Fall)


• 2012 Longlist, Scotiabank Giller Prize (My Life Among the Apes)


• 2013 Finalist, Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize ("A Bird's Eye")


• 2015 Finalist, John Spray Mystery Award ("The Show to End all Shows")

Published books

Novels for adults

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  The Animals' Waltz: a novel (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1994)


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  Sleeping Weather (Porcupine's Quill, 1997)


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  Felix Roth (Stoddart Books, 1999)


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  The Mermaid of Paris (Key Porter Books, 2003)


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  Valentine's Fall (Cormorant Books, 2010)


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  A Bird's Eye (House of Anansi, 2013)

Children's fiction

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  Gogol's Coat (Tundra Books, 1999), illustrated by Regolo Ricci, adapted from "The Overcoat" by Gogol
  


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  The Market Wedding (Tundra, 2000), illus. Regolo Ricci, from Abraham Cahan
  


• Daughter of the Great Zandini (Tundra, 2001), illus. Cybèle Young


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  Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina's Life (Tundra, 2002), by Fagan and Chan Hon Goh, autobiographical


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  The Fortress of Kaspar Snit (Tundra, 2004), novel


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  Ten Old Men and a Mouse (Tundra, 2007), illus. Gary Clement
  


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  My New Shirt (Tundra, 2007), illus. Dušan Petričić
  


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  Directed by Kaspar Snit (Tundra, 2007), sequel novel


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  Mr. Karp's Last Glass (Tundra, 2007), illus. Selçuk Demirel
  


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  Ten Lessons for Kaspar Snit (Tundra, 2008), sequel novel


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  Thing-Thing (Tundra, 2008), illus. Nicolas Debon
  


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  Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas (Tundra, 2009), illus. Dušan Petričić


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  Book of Big Brothers (Groundwood Books, 2010), illus. Luc Melanson
  


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  The Big Swim (Groundwood, 2010), novel


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  Banjo of Destiny (Groundwood, 2011), illus. Selçuk Demirel


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  Ella May and the Wishing Stone (Tundra, 2011), illus. Geneviève Côté
  


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  Mr. Zinger's Hat (Tundra, 2012), illus. Dušan Petričić


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  The Boy in the Box (Penguin Canada, 2012), novel; Master Melville's Medicine Show, book 1


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  Danny, Who Fell in a Hole (Groundwood, 2013), illus. Milan Pavlovic
  


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  Oy, Feh, So (Groundwood, 2013), illus. Gary Clement


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  Little Blue Chair (Tundra, 2017), illus. Madelie Kloepper


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  A Cage Went in Search of a Bird (Groundwood, 2017), illus. Banafsheh Erfanian


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  Wolfie & Fly (Tundra, 2017), illus. Zoe Si


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  Mort Ziff is Not Dead (Penguin Canada)

Short stories

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  History Lessons (Hounslow, 1990)


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  The Little Black Dress: tales from France (Mercury Press, 1993)


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  The Doctor's House and other Fiction (Stoddart, 2000)


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  My Life Among the Apes (Cormorant, 2012)


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  The Old World and Other Stories (Anansi, 2017)

Non-fiction

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  City Hall and Mrs. God: A Passionate Journey Through a Changing Toronto (Mercury Press, 1990)

As editor

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  Streets of Attitude: Toronto stories (Toronto: Yonge & Bloor, 1990),
  OCLC 247188080
  


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  A Walk by the Seine: Canadian poets on Paris (Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1995),
  OCLC 635872651
  

References

External links

• Official website


• paperplates books


• espresso


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  Cary Fagan at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  


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  Cary Fagan at Library of Congress Authorities, with 25 catalogue records


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  My Father's Picasso Published on Geist Magazine