Clifford Jackman

Clifford Jackman
BornDeep River, Ontario, Canada
OccupationWriter
GenreNovelist, short stories
Notable worksThe Winter Family

Clifford Jackman is a Canadian lawyer and writer. He is best known for his 2015 novel The Winter Family, which was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize[1] and a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.[2]

Born in Deep River, Ontario, Canada and raised in Ottawa,[3] Jackman studied English literature at York University and law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2009, and practices law in Guelph, Ontario.[3]

Prior to The Winter Family, Jackman published two volumes of short stories and a mystery novel with Manor House Publishing. The Winter Family was his first book to be published by Random House of Canada.[3]

Works

  • Deeper
  • Jackman's Cliff
  • The Black Box
  • The Winter Family (2015)
  • The Braver Thing (2020)[4]

References

  1. ^ "Giller Prize long list isn’t short of Montrealers" Archived 2020-08-04 at the Wayback Machine. Montreal Gazette, September 15, 2014.
  2. ^ "Governor-General’s Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c "The Winter Family has bloody good time". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, May 2, 2015.
  4. ^ "47 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2020". CBC Books, February 5, 2020.


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