Tim Bowling (born 1964 in

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) is a Guggenheim winning Canadian

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and

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. He spent his youth in Ladner,

, and now lives in

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. He has published four novels. He was a judge for the 2015

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Awards and recognition

* 2002:

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, winner of poetry award, ''Darkness and Silence'' * 2003: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, ''The Witness Ghost'' * 2004: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, ''The Memory Orchard'' * 2004:

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, winner of the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, ''The Paperboy's Winter'' Writers' Guild of Alberta: 2004 Alberta Book Awards winners
(PDF document) * 2008:

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* 2012:

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finalist for ''The Tinsmith''.

Bibliography

* 1995: ''Low Water Slack'' (Nightwood Editions) * 1997: ''Dying Scarlet'' (Nightwood Editions) * 2000: ''Downriver Drift'' (Harbour Publishing) * 2001: ''Darkness and Silence'' (Nightwood Editions) * 2002: ''Where the words come from: Canadian poets in conversation'', as editor (Nightwood Editions) * 2003: ''The Witness Ghost'' (Nightwood Editions) * 2003: ''The Paperboy's Winter'' (Penguin) * 2004: ''The Memory Orchard'' (Brick Books) * 2004: ''In The Suicide's Library'' (Gaspereau Press) * 2006: ''Fathom'' (Gaspereau Press)

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: ,

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: * 2007: ''The Bone Sharps'' (Gaspereau Press) * 2007: ''The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture'' (Nightwood Editions) * 2008: ''The Book Collector'' (Nightwood Editions) * 2010: ''The Annotated Bee and Me'' (Gaspereau Press) * 2010: ''Between Rainfalls'' (Barbarian Press) * 2011: ''Tenderman'' (Nightwood) * 2012: ''The Tinsmith'' (Brindle & Glass) * 2014: ''Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief'' (Gaspereau Press)

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Nightwood Editions: Tim BowlingRecords of Nightwood Editions are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
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