Neil Smith

NEIL SMITH is a Canadian writer and translator. His novel Boo , published in 2015, won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Boo was also nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Qu�bec. Smith published his debut book, the short story collection Bang Crunch , in 2007. It was chosen as a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Globe and Mail and won the McAuslan First Book Prize...See more

NEIL SMITH is a Canadian writer and translator. His novel Boo , published in 2015, won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Boo was also nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Qu�bec. Smith published his debut book, the short story collection Bang Crunch , in 2007. It was chosen as a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Globe and Mail and won the McAuslan First Book Prize from the Quebec Writers' Federation. It was also a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, as was Jones . Three stories in Bang Crunch were nominated for the Journey Prize. Smith also works as a translator, from French to English. The Goddess of Fireflies , his translation of Genevi�ve Pettersen's novel La d�esse des mouches � feu , was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. See less