Gary Barwin

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Caption: Award-winning Hamilton, Ont.-based writer Gary Barwin is a novelist, poet and children's author. (Adela Talbot)

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, visual and multidisciplinary artist and the author of 26 books of poetry, fiction and books for children.
His national bestselling novel Yiddish for Pirates won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Fiction). It was also a finalist for both the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In 2017, he published the poetry collection No TV for Woodpeckers.
His novel Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted won a 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the fiction category.
A new poetry book, The Most Charming Creatures, is due out in September 2022.
He lives in Hamilton, Ont.

Books by Gary Barwin

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Interviews

Media Audio | Gary Barwin on Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted

Caption: Gary Barwin talks with Shelagh Rogers about his novel Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy, which won a 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award.

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Media Audio | CBC Books : CBC Poetry Prize juror Gary Barwin

Caption: The poet and artist discusses being a juror with Calgary Eyeopener.

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Media Audio | The Next Chapter : Gary Barwin on "Yiddish for Pirates"

Caption: Author Gary Barwin on the inspiration for his first novel.

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