Gary Barwin

Gary Barwin (born 1964 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Canadian poet, writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer and educator who lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Barwin was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and emigrated to Ottawa, Ontario, in the early 1970s.

He graduated from York University with a BFA in music and a BA in creative writing in 1985, where he studied writing with bpNichol, Frank Davey and music with David Mott, James Tenney, and Trichy Sankaran.

In addition to books, he is the author of chapbooks and pamphlets, many from his own serif of nottingham editions.

[1] Barwin's novel Yiddish for Pirates won the 2017 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour,[2] the Canadian Jewish Literary Award (Fiction),[3] and was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.