This week’s guest is Terry Fallis. A two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Terry is the award-winning author of seven national bestsellers, all published by McClelland & Stewart (M&S). His debut novel, The Best Laid Plans (2008),won the 2008 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour and was crowned the 2011 winner of CBC Canada Reads as the “essential Canadian novel of the decade.“The High Road (2010)was a finalist for the 2011 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Up and Down (2012), debuted on the Globe and Mail bestsellers list, was a finalist for the 2013 Leacock Medal, and won the 2013 Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award. Terry published more award winning novels in the years that followed; No Relation (2014), won the 2015 Leacock Medal. M&S published Poles Apart (2015), One Brother Shy(2017)and Albatross, (2019) and has just released Terry’s new novel Operation Angus. Terry has written for many publications including Maclean’s, Canadian Geographic, Reader’s Digest, Toronto Life, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and the Toronto Star. Terry earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McMaster University (1983) where he became engulfed in university politics and somehow persuaded the undergraduates to elect him President of the Students Union.
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Word on the Hills Radio Program 
What a delight to hear Terry Fallis, one of Canada’s greatest satirists and humorists, talk about his writing debut, how he writes, and to hear him read from his most recent novel. Thank you Terry, Gwynn and Chris.