Herb Curtis (born 1949) is a Canadian

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and

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who writes about and has long lived in

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. He is best known for writing the Brennen Siding Trilogy, three connected novels set in the fictional community of Brennen Siding, New Brunswick (loosely based on Kennan Siding, New Brunswick). The trilogy consists of the novels ''The Americans are Coming'', ''The Last Tasmanian'' and ''The Lone Angler''. The most critically acclaimed of the series is ''The Last Tasmanian'' which won the 1992

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and was nominated for the

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. In 1999, Curtis was nominated for the

Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, also known as the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour or just the Leacock Medal, is an annual literary award presented for the best book of humour written in English by a Canadian writer, published or self ...

for his collection of humorous stories, ''Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles'' and in January 2018 he was presented with the pritedgious Sesquicentennial Medal in recognition of his valuable service to the nation. Curtis grew up near

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, and currently resides in Fredericton. His novels ''The Americans are Coming'' and ''The Last Tasmanian'' have both been adapted for the stage, and the former has also become and a standard text in schools throughout Atlantic Canada and Quebec. The Canadian Encyclopedia In 2006, Curtis was a contributing author to ''The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour''.

Works

*''The Americans are Coming'' - 1989 *''The Last Tasmanian'' - 1991 *''Look What the Cat Drug In'' - 1991 *''Slow Men Working In Trees'' - 1991 *''Hoofprints on the Sheets'' - 1993 *''The Lone Angler'' - 1993 *''The Silent Partner'' - 1996 *''The Scholten Story'' - 1996 *''Gifts to Last: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland'' (Contributing Author) 1996 *''Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles'' (1999) *''Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland'' (Contributing Author) 2001 *''The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour'' (Contributing Author) 2006 *''Bruno Bobak'' (Contributing Author) 2006

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Curtis, Herb Canadian humorists Canadian male novelists Writers from Fredericton People from Northumberland County, New Brunswick 1949 births Living people 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian male writers