Howard Engel

Howard Engel created the genre of Canadian crime fiction with his Benny Cooperman mystery series. He was the first crime writer to win the Matt Cohen Award for lifetime achievement, along with the Arthur Ellis Award, the Derrick Mrdoch Award and the Harbourfront Festival Prize for Canadian Literature, among others. After a stroke left him with the ability to write but not read, he wrote Memory Book, considered to be one of his finest works.