Wayne Grady

Wayne Grady is the 2015-16 Haig-Brown Writer-in-Residence.  Grady is the author of 14 books, the translator of 15 novels from French to English, and the editor of 11 anthologies of literary fiction and non-fiction.

He was awarded the Governor General’s Award for Translation in 1989 and nominated again in 1995 and 2005.  His extensive travels through the Gobi Desert, Patagonia, the United States and a visit to the North Pole have all informed his extensive travel and environmental writing.

Tree: A Life Story was co-authored with David Suzuki in 2007 and was shortlisted for the BC Book of the Year. His first novel Emancipation Day (Doubleday 2013) was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Award and won the Amazon First Novel Award.

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