Wayne Johnston

Wayne Johnston is a Canadian novelist born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. His novels include First Snow, Last Light, The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York, and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, which was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Baltimore's Mansion won the inaugural Charles Taylor Prize. In 2011 he received the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award. The Novice of Holloway Hall was longlisted for the 2026 Scotiabank Giller Prize.