David Bergen is the author of ten novels and two collections of short stories. His work has been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Impac Dublin Literary Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Among his acclaimed works are The Time in Between; The Matter with Morris, which was a winner of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; The Age of Hope, which was a bestseller and a finalist for CBC Canada Reads; and his latest, Away From the Dead, a novel set in Ukraine during the Russian Revolution. In 2018 Bergen was given the Writer’s Trust Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. This September, Bergen will publish a literary crime novel, Days of Feasting and Rejoicing.