David Bergen’s work has been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Impac Dublin Literary Award, and a Pushcart Prize. In 2005 Bergen won the Giller Prize for his novel The Time in Between. Away from the Dead, his latest novel, was longlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize.

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Away from the Dead

Praised by the Montreal Gazette as “one of Canada’s best writers” and by the Globe and Mail as “inventive and electrifying,” David Bergen is the bestselling author of eleven novels and two collections of short fiction. In book after book, he has harnessed the written word to illuminate the human condition. Among his most acclaimed works are The Time in Between, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize; The Age of Hope, a national bestseller and a finalist for Canada Reads; and Out of Mind, winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. His writing has also been nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and a Pushcart Prize. In 2018 Bergen was presented with the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. He lives in Winnipeg.