Terry Fallis

A two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Terry Fallis is the author of ten national bestselling novels including his latest, The Marionette (2025), all published by McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House. The Best Laid Plans was the winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour in 2008, and CBC’s Canada Reads in 2011. It was adapted as a six-part CBC-Television miniseries, and a stage musical. The High Road was a Leacock Medal finalist in 2011. Up and Down was the winner of the 2013 Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and was a finalist for the 2013 Leacock Medal. His fourth novel, No Relation (2014) won the 2015 Leacock Medal. His fifth, Poles Apart (2015) was a Globe and Mail bestseller and a finalist for the 2016 Leacock Medal. One Brother Shy (2017), Albatross (2019), Operation Angus (2021), A New Season (2023), and The Marionette (2025) were all national bestsellers. Terry’s eleventh novel, An End in Itself, will be released November 3, 2026. In 2013, The Canadian Booksellers Association named Terry Fallis the winner of the Libris Award as Author of the Year.

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