Howard Norman

Howard Norman is a Canadian-American author who is one of the most distinctive and acclaimed literary voices in contemporary North American fiction. The Bird Artist is a novel set in early twentieth-century Newfoundland, following a young man whose passion for painting birds intersects with a web of love, betrayal and violence in a remote coastal community. The novel was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been praised for its spare, luminous prose, its vividly realised setting and its exploration of art, desire and the constraints of small-community life. Norman's fiction is characterised by its attention to landscape, its morally complex characters and the influence of indigenous and northern Canadian cultures on his storytelling. He has also written My Famous Evening, The Museum Guard and several works of non-fiction. His audiobooks and books offer readers literary fiction of rare beauty and psychological depth.