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Wayne Johnston (writer)
Canadian writer
Wayne Johnston (born May 22, 1958)[1] is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting.
In 2011 Johnston was awarded the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award in recognition of his overall contribution to Canadian Literature.
Biography
Johnston was May 22, 1958, born in Goulds, Newfoundland,[1] and graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1978 with a degree in English literature.
He worked for three years as a newspaper reporter with the St.
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John's Daily News.
In 1981, he moved to Ottawa, and began to pursue writing full-time, in part by graduate work. He graduated with an MA in English from the University of New Brunswick in 1984. His first novel, The Story of Bobby O'Malley—which was written while he was a graduate student—won him early critical notice, and the W.H.
Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1985. T