Charles Montgomery (journalist)

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Charles Montgomery (* 1968 in North Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada ) is a Canadian writer and photojournalist .

Life

Charles Montgomery was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He spent his formative years on a farm on Vancouver Island . Montgomery graduated from the University of Victoria and Langara College . He began his career in the Lillooet Bridge River News and The Vancouver Sun . He lived in Hong Kong from 1996 to 1998 , where he wrote articles for the Hong Kong Shipping Gazette and HK Magazine .

Montgomery's articles on the environment, adventure, cultural differences and myths have appeared in magazines and daily newspapers in Canada, the United States and Hong Kong, including Outside Magazine , Explore Magazine , Canadian Geographic , enRoute , National Post , The Globe and Mail , The Walrus and The South China Morning Post .

His articles for magazine won four Western Canada Magazine Awards, the 2004 Silver National Magazine Award, and the 2003 American Society of Travel Writer's Lowell Thomas Silver Award for Best North American Travel History.

His best-known book, published in Canada under the title The Last Heathen (2004), is a narrative description of Montgomery's search for the legacy of Victorian missionaries in the South Pacific archipelago of Melanesia . It contains descriptions of the cargo cult and the ancient tribal wars on Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands . The book won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction in 2005 . The jury called it "at irresistible adventure in discovery, a journey into rough terrain and a revelation of the power of ancestral stories across cultural divides." In addition, the book to was BC Book Prizes belonging Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize awarded and was shortlisted for Writers' Trust awards.

Charles Montgomery is a member of the FCC, a collective of Vancouver-based literary journalists whose stories about the world are based on comparative approaches. According to his own statements, he is influenced by the music of Manu Chaos and the writings of Malcolm Lowry , Laurens van der Post , Bruce Chatwin , Miguel de Cervantes and Paul William Roberts .

Montgomery lives in Vancouver and Mexico City .

plant

  • Lowry's ghosts . Transcontinental Media Inc., Vancouver 2002.
  • The Last Heathen . 2004 (US title: The Shark God , 2006)
  • Farewell brave Babylon: the memoirs of Captain Ali Al-Wahabi, former Presidential pilot for Saddam Hussein . (Translation and illustration: Lynn Santer and Charles Montgomery) Babylon Publishing, Slough 2006.
  • My way! : an ordinary guy's extraordinary journey . (with Lois Carter) Tattersall Publishing, Denton 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kitty Hoffman: Review; In: The Malahat Review . Fall 2005. No. 152. Accessed July 26, 2012.