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Herb Curtis

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Hābu Kātisu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1949-01-01 （near Blackville, New Brunswick）
Nationality
Canada
Languages
English
Residence History
near Blackville, New Brunswick (childhood) → Fredericton (current)

Career

Occupations
novelist, humorist
Active Years
1989-2025
Nominations
Commonwealth Prize (The Last Tasmanian), Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour (Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles)

Awards

Thomas Head Raddall Award
1992
Work: The Last Tasmanian
Organization: Atlantic Book Awards
Result: winner
Sesquicentennial Medal
2018
Result: recipient

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Americans are Coming

1989 Novel

First novel in the Brennen Siding Trilogy set in a fictional New Brunswick community.

Adaptations
  • [Stage] The Americans are Coming

The Last Tasmanian

1991 Novel

Second in the Brennen Siding Trilogy, most critically acclaimed.

Adaptations
  • [Stage] The Last Tasmanian

The Lone Angler

1993 Novel

Third novel in the Brennen Siding Trilogy.

Bibliography

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

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Humorous narrativeRegional vernacular
Recurring Motifs
New Brunswick rural lifeLocal community humor

Legacy

Canadian author renowned for the humorous Brennen Siding Trilogy set in New Brunswick, with works used as standard texts in Atlantic Canada schools.

In Popular Culture

  • Used as standard text in schools throughout Atlantic Canada and Quebec.