Terry Glavin

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Terry Glavin (born 1955 in the UK ) is a Canadian writer and journalist .

Life

Terry Glavin was born in the UK to Irish parents who emigrated with him to Canada in 1957 . Glavin has worked as a journalist and columnist for The Daily Columbian , The Vancouver Sun , The Globe and Mail , National Post, and The Georgia Straight . The content of his journalistic and literary works spans both regional and global topics from natural history to anthropology and current politics.

Accordingly, his first two books dealt with the problems of different tribes of the First Nation : A Death Feast in Dimlahamid (1990), dealt with the problems of the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en, how they access their own oral history , i.e. the transmission of Dimlahamid, an ancient city also known as Temlaham. His second work Nemiah: The Unconquered Country (1992) tried to establish the cultural and historical access to the Chilcotin District within British Columbia , in which he also contributed a lot to the Chilcotin War of 1864 from the perspective of the Tsilhqot'in .

This leads to the best books hear The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean (2000), for the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize was nominated and finally, the likewise BC Book Prizes belonging Hubert Evans non-Fiction Prize won. However, it was also the first and so far only time that a book was shortlisted in three BC Book Prizes categories .

In 2006, Glavin came under pressure from antiwar activists after a column in Georgia Straight advocating support for the US and Israeli positions on the July 2006 invasion of Lebanon . Glavin is also a signatory to the Euston Manifesto.

In 2009 Glavin received the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence .

Terry Glavin supports the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan and is an active member of the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee.

In 2011, Glavin served as the final and select judge of the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize sponsored by The Malahat Review , which was awarded to Anne Marie Todkill for Hoarding that year .

plant

  • A Death Feast in Dimlahamid - 1990. ISBN 978-0921586142 (ÜNA 1998)
  • Nemiah: The Unconquered Country - 1992
  • A Ghost in the Water - 1994
  • Dead Reckoning: Confronting the Crisis in Pacific Fisheries - 1996
  • This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape - 1996.
  • The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean - 2000
  • A Voice Great Within Us - 1998 (with Charles Lillard )
  • North of Caution - 2002 (with Ian Gill , Richard Manning, Ben Parfitt and Alex Rosel)
  • Amongst God's Own: The Enduring Legacy of St. Mary's Mission - 2002. ISBN 978-0968604618 (with former St. Mary's students)
  • Waiting for the Macaws: And Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions - 2006
  • The Sixth Extinction: Journeys Among the Lost and Left Behind - 2006. ISBN 978-0312362317
  • Come from the Shadows: The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan - 2011

Awards

  • Best Column in a Magazine, Western Magazine Awards, 1998
  • Science, Technology and Medicine Prize, National Magazine Awards Foundation, 1998
  • Science Technology and Medicine Prize, Western Magazine Awards, 1998
  • Jack Webster Awards prize for Science and Technology, 1997
  • "Science in Society" prize from the Canadian Science Writers Association , 1996
  • Special Award for Editorial Innovation, Impact or Courage, Western Magazine Awards, 1994
  • First prize, Travel Writing, National Awards Foundation, 1994
  • Best Essay of the Year, National Magazine Awards Foundation, 1993
  • Science Technology and Medicine Prize, Western Magazine Awards, 1993
  • Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize , 2001
  • Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence , 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/creative_non-fiction_prize/2011_winner.html
  2. ↑ Lesley Krueger: Review: This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape by Terry Glavin. In: Quill & Quire . January 1997. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Glavin, Terry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH United Kingdom