Russell Wangersky
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Born | Russell Wangersky Connecticut[1] |
Occupation | Writer, journalist |
Genre | Non-fiction, creative non-fiction |
Notable works | Burning Down the House, Whirl Away |
Russell Wangersky is a Canadian journalist and writer of creative non-fiction. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Canada since the age of three, Wangersky was educated at Acadia University.[1] He has been page editor of The Telegram in St. John's, as well as a columnist and magazine writer.[2]
He has been nominated for the National Newspaper Award four times, and has won once,[3] as well as several Canadian awards for creative non-fiction writing. He is also a four-time National Magazine Award finalist.
He published his debut short story collection, The Hour of Bad Decisions, in 2006. The collection was named to the initial longlist for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was also a finalist for the Winterset Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize - Canada and the Caribbean, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His book Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself, a non-fiction memoir of his 20 years as a volunteer firefighter, was released in Canada by Thomas Allen Publishers in March 2008. It was a finalist for the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, and won British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, the Drummer-General Prize for Non-Fiction and the Rogers Television Newfoundland and Labrador Non-Fiction Prize.
His 2011 novel The Glass Harmonica won the 2011 Winterset Award. His 2012 short story collection Whirl Away was a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize,[4] and won the 2013 Thomas Head Raddall Award.[5]
References
- ^ a b Maclean's Magazine, October 4, 2012, Giller Prize nominee Russell Wangersky on writing, and reading — Plus, an exclusive excerpt from his book of short stories, Whirl Away, Retrieved 11/22/2012
- ^ CBC News, November 6, 2011, On Point: Did St. John's get a cabinet snub?, Retrieved 11/22/2012
- ^ "Winners since 1949 - National Newspaper Awards". National Newspaper Awards. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
- ^ "Scotiabank Giller Prize short list announced". Toronto Star, October 1, 2012.
- ^ "Wangersky wins fiction award for ‘Whirl Away’". The Telegram, September 23, 2013.
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- Susan Mayse, Ginger (1991)
- Marie Wadden, Nitassinan, (1992)
- Liza Potvin, White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana (1993)
- Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life (1994)
- Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children (1995)
- George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy (1996)
- Anne Mullens, Timely Death (1997)
- Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King (1998)
- Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane (1999)
- Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows (2000)
- Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues (2001)
- Tom Allen, Rolling Home (2002)
- Alison Watt, The Last Island (2003)
- Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue (2004)
- Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret (2005)
- Francis Chalifour, After (2006)
- Linden MacIntyre, Causeway (2007)
- Bruce Serafin, Stardust (2008)
- Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House (2009)
- John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life (2010)
- Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost (2011)
- Joshua Knelman, Hot Art (2012)
- Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss (2013)
- Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)
- Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats (2015)
- Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club (2016)
- Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo (2017)
- Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)
- Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)
- Ann Hui, Chop Suey Nation (2020)
- Vicki Laveau-Harvie, The Erratics: A Memoir (2021)
- Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing (2022)
- Hilary Peach, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood (2023)