Career
After university, he pursued a career as a playwright, his most notable play being Mayonnaise, [1] which debuted in December 1980 at the Phoenix Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. The play went on to national production and was adapted to a TV broadcast in 1983. [1] Ibbitson lived in London, England during this era. [1]
In the mid-1980s, Ibbitson switched over to writing young adult fiction, including the science fiction novel Starcrosser (1990). He also wrote two full-length novels, 1812: Jeremy's War and The Night Hazel Came to Town. The Landing followed in 2008 - a winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. Apart from the latter Ibbitson has been nominated for several awards for other works, including a Governor General's Award nomination for 1812. [1] Hazel received a nomination for the Trillium Book Award and the City of Toronto Book Award. His journalism has also been nominated for a National Newspaper Award.
In 1988, he joined the Ottawa Citizen , where he worked as a city reporter and columnist. He covered Ontario politics from 1995 to 2001, working for the Ottawa Citizen, Southam News, the National Post , and The Globe and Mail. In 2001, Ibbitson accepted the post of Washington bureau chief at The Globe and Mail, [1] returning to Canada one year later, in 2002, to take up the post of political affairs columnist. [1] In 2007, he moved back to Washington as a columnist. In 2009, he returned to Ottawa as bureau chief. In 2010, he became the paper's chief political writer. In that role, he has also frequently appeared on Canadian television news programs as a pundit and political analyst. In 2015, he became writer-at-large.
In recent years, Ibbitson has focused on writing political books, often in tandem with pollster Darrell Bricker. In 2013, Ibbitson and Bricker co-authored the book The Big Shift: The Seismic Change in Canadian Politics, Business, and Culture and What It Means for Our Future. [3] In January 2014, Ibbitson began a one-year leave of absence from the Globe to serve as a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and to work on a biography of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. His biography on Harper was published in August 2015. In 2016, the book won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. [4] In 2019, Ibbitson and Bricker co-authored the book Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline. It was published separately in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. It was also translated into Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. [5]
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