Background
He was born and raised in Wiarton, Ontario.
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Robert McGill
Edit Profileliterary critic novelist writer
Education
He graduated from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1999. He attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, then completed the Master of Arts program in Creative at the University of East Anglia. After graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Toronto, Robert moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and took up a Junior Fellowship with the Harvard University Society of Fellows.
Career
He now teaches Creative and Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Prizes and honors.
Achievements
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In 2001, McGill was a finalist for the Royal Bank of Canada Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. In 2002, two of his stories, “Confidence Men” and “The Stars Are Falling,” were nominated for the Journey Prize and selected for the Journey Prize Anthology 14. In 2003, his story “Nobody Goes to Vancouver to Die” was shortlisted for a Canadian National Magazine Award. "The Mysteries was named one of the top five Canadian fiction books of 2004 by Quill & Quire. lieutenant was also the winner of the 2006 Western Reads competition, garnering twice as many votes as the second-place book McGill’s scholarly writing has won the Juliet McLauchlan Prize of the Joseph Conrad Society, as well as the George Wicken Prize in Canadian Literature.
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Nationality
Canada
Education
Awards
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RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers; Journey Prize
The Writers' Trust of Canada, or La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada, is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.The Writers' Trust of Canada, or La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada, is a charitable organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.