Terry Glavin (born 1955) is a Canadian author and journalist.
Terry Glavin (born 1955) is a Canadian author and journalist.
Born in the United Kingdom to Irish parents, he emigrated to Canada in 1957. Glavin has worked as a journalist and columnist for The Other Press (copy editor), The Daily Columbian (reporter, columnist and assistant city editor), The Vancouver Sun (columnist), The Globe and Mail (columnist), The Georgia Straight (columnist), and The Tyee . [1] [2] He has been with the Ottawa Citizen since 2011. [3] He has contributed articles to many newspapers and magazines, including Canadian Geographic , Vancouver Review , Democratiya , The National Post , Seed, Adbusters , and Lettre International (Berlin). [4] He founded and was chief editor of Transmontanus Books, an imprint of New Star Books.
He was a sessional instructor in the Writing Department of the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. [5]
In 2009, he won the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence for his books and magazine and newspaper articles. [6]
Glavin's writing covers a wide range of regional and global topics from natural history and anthropology to current politics. His work as a journalist and writer have taken him to Central America, China, the Eastern Himalayas, the Russian Far East, Afghanistan, and Israel, and his books have been published in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. He is a signatory of the Euston Manifesto.
Glavin's first book, A Death Feast in Dimlahamid (1990), dealt with the struggles of the Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en peoples, drawing on an account of the oral traditions of Dimlahamid, also known as Temlaham, an ancient city said to have existed in that region. His second book, Nemiah: The Unconquered Country (1992), a cultural and historical account of British Columbia's Chilcotin District, included some of the Tsilhqot'in people's perspective on the Chilcotin War of 1864. Ghost in the Water, on the giant green sturgeon in British Columbia's rivers, was published by New Star in 1994. [7]
Among his best known works is The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean (2000), which was nominated for the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, and was the winner of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. [8] In total, he has authored seven books on his own, and three in collaboration with other authors. [9] Books published since The Last Great Sea are
Other works by Glavin are:
In 2009, Glavin was awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence for contributing significantly to the development of literary excellence in British Columbia and the Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction. He has a total of eleven awards including several National Magazine Awards:
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