Taras Grescoe
Taras Grescoe is a Canadian non-fiction writer who won the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2008 for his book Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood.[1] He was also nominated twice previously, for Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec in 2000 and The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists in 2003. His most recent book, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile is about public transportation around the world.[2][3]
Grescoe was born in Toronto, Ontario. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.[1]
Work[]
Sacré Blues won the 2001 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction[4] and two awards from the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.
He has contributed to Canadian Geographic,[5] The New York Times, Salon, The Independent, National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Wired, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, The Times, and Condé Nast Traveller.
His book, Bottomfeeder: how to eat ethically in a world of vanishing seafood has also been published as Dead Seas: how the fish on our plates is killing our planets and Bottomfeeder: how the fish on our plates is killing our planets (Pan/Macmillan 2012).
Books[]
- Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec (2000)
- The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists (2003)
- The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit (2005)
- Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (2008)
- Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012)
- Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World (2016)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Taras Grescoe wins Writers' Trust" Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine. Dose, November 17, 2008.
- ^ "Memoirs, histories vie for $60K Hilary Weston Prize". CBC News, September 25, 2012.
- ^ Taras Grescoe; Contributors June/ July 2013 Afar
- ^ Wilfrid Laurier University 2001: Taras Grescoe, retrieved 11/17/2012
- ^ Articles by Taras Grescoe at Canadian Geographic. Canadian Geographic, May 18, 2011.
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