Alan Cumyn
Novels for Adults


The SojournThe First World War odyssey of artist Ramsay Chrome.
The Famished Lover


Losing It
Why is it that those who have so much are so intent on throwing it all away?










Man of BoneSurvival and love in the heart of darkness.

Burridge Unbound















Home and Abroad
Between Families and the SkyWaiting for Li Ming
Alan Cumyn's new young adult novel TILT!

Tilt


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Alan Cumyn is the author of eleven wide-ranging and often wildly different novels. A two-time winner of the Ottawa Book Award, he has also had work shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, the Giller Prize, and the Trillium Award. He teaches through the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a past Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada.

Owen Skye makes it to Youtube!


Novels for Young Readers
Alan Cumyn

Alan Cumyn, who has written so many celebrated adult novels... and whose first Skye novel has won the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Hackmatack Children's Choice Award, is fast becoming one of today's leading Canadian writers for children. His Owen Skye books can stand beside the works of such established writers as Kit Pearson, Tim Wynne-Jones, Robert Munsch and Dennis Lee.
--The Ottawa Citizen--

The Secret Life of Owen

                      SkyeThe epic love story of Owen and Sylvia, with occasional appearances by the Bog Man's wife...

After SylviaDear Sylvia