Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk (born 1955) is a Canadian journalist and author. His writing has appeared in many outlets, including Saturday Night, Maclean's, Alberta Views, Alternatives Journal, and national newspapers. He has won multiple National Magazine Awards for his work.[1] In 1990, the Toronto Star awarded him an Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy to study AIDS and the failure of public health policy.[2] He has also published numerous books, including Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Oil, which won the Governor General's Award in 2002[3] and Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for 2008-09 from the Society of Environmental Journalists.[4]

In 2010, Nikiforuk became The Tyee's first writer in residence.

Awards

Books

  • School's Out: The Catastrophe in Public Education and What We Can Do About It, Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1993, Hardcover, 207 pages, 978-0-92191-248-4
  • Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Epidemics, Plagues, Famines & Other Scourges, Viking Canada, 1991, Hardcover, 200 pages, 978-0-67083-122-7
  • Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil, Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2002, Paperback, 296 pages, 978-1-55199-101-6
  • Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century, Viking Canada (AHC), Hardcover, 320 pages, 978-0-67004-519-8
  • Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Greystone Books, April 2010, paperback, 208 pages, ISBN 978-1-55365-555-8
  • Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests, Greystone Books, August 2011, paperback, 240 pages, ISBN 978-1-55365-510-7
  • The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude, Greystone Books, September 2012, hardcover, 296 pages, ISBN 978-1-55365-978-5
  • Nikiforuk, Andrew (2015). Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry. Vancouver: Greystone Books. ISBN 978-1-77164-076-3.

References

  1. ^ "4 awards and a total of citations and nominations for the National Magazine Awards". Archived from the original on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
  2. ^ "Atkinson Foundation website". Archived from the original on April 7, 2008.
  3. ^ "Wayback Machine" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2006.
  4. ^ Winners: SEJ 8th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment, Society of Environmental Journalists, 2009, retrieved 2014-05-27
  5. ^ "Vancouver Sun reporters earn honorable mention". The Vancouver Sun. Vol. 104, no. 24. June 5, 1989. p. B2 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Canadian journalists win honors". The Ottawa Citizen. June 4, 1990. p. F8.

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