Celebrated poet and novelist Michael Crummey’s masterful novel, The Adversary, is a Globe & Mail “best book” and the winner of the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.
Michael Crummey is the author of seven books of poetry and a collection of short stories, Flesh and Blood. He is also the author of the novels The Wreckage, a national bestseller and finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Galore, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Novel (Canada and Caribbean) and finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award; Sweetland, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award; and The Innocents, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. His most recent novel, The Adversary, was a #1 national bestseller. Michael Crummey lives in St. John’s, NL.
