Carys Cragg

Canadian social worker and writer

Carys Cragg is a Canadian social worker and writer.[1] She is most noted for her book Dead Reckoning: How I Came To Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.[2]

Cragg, now a youth outreach worker in Vancouver, British Columbia and an instructor at Douglas College,[3] grew up in Calgary, Alberta as the daughter of Geoffrey Cragg, a doctor who was killed in 1992 by an armed robber who had broken into their home.[4] As an adult, she undertook a restorative justice project of corresponding with and eventually meeting the killer, which she documented in the book.

References

  1. ^ "What happened when Carys Cragg met the man who killed her father?". Toronto Star, December 22, 2017.
  2. ^ "Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage in running for $25,000 Governor General's fiction prize". Toronto Star, October 3, 2018.
  3. ^ "Carys Cragg's memoir of restorative justice, Dead Reckoning, reveals how she met her dad's killer". The Georgia Straight, November 22, 2017.
  4. ^ "Daughter of slain Calgary doctor at peace with his killer's release on parole". Calgary Herald, August 27, 2017.


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