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Andrew Westoll

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Nationality
  
Canadian

Spouse
  
Samantha Westoll


Name
  
Andrew Westoll

Role
  
Fiction writer

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Genre
  
Non-fiction, creative non-fiction

Notable works
  
The Riverbones, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary

Education
  
University of British Columbia

Books
  
The Chimps of Fauna Sa, The Riverbones, Surinam: Stumbling Through t, Chimps of Fauna Sanctuar

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Andrew Westoll is a Canadian writer, who won the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for his non-fiction book The Chimps of Fauna Foundation: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery.

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A primatologist, Westoll previously published the travel memoir The Riverbones, about a year he spent studying capuchin monkeys in Suriname, in 2008. He is also a contributor to The Walrus, Explore, Outpost and The Globe and Mail. He won a Canadian National Magazine Award in 2007 for his Explore article "Somewhere Up a Jungle River", an article that grew into a book, The Riverbones.

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In 2016, he published The Jungle South of the Mountain, his first novel.

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Works

  • The Riverbones (2008)
  • The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary (2011)
  • The Jungle South of the Mountain (2016)
  • Awards and honors

  • 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
  • 2007 Gold National Magazine Award for "Somewhere Up a Jungle River"
  • References

    Andrew Westoll Wikipedia