Andrew Westoll

Canadian writer

Andrew Westoll
Born	Andrew Westoll
Nationality	Canadian
Genre	Novelist, creative non-fiction
Notable works	The Riverbones, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
Spouse	Samantha Westoll

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.^[1]

A primatologist, Westoll previously published the travel memoir The Riverbones, about a year he spent studying capuchin monkeys in Suriname, in 2008.^[2] 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.^[3]

In 2016, he published The Jungle South of the Mountain, his first novel.^[2]

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

^ Medley, Mark, March 5, 2012, Andrew Westoll wins Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Archived July 2, 2012, at archive.today, National Post, Retrieved 11/23/2012
^ ^a ^b "Profile: Writing fiction gave Andrew Westoll a way to revisit his former life as a primatologist in South America". Quill & Quire, July 2016.
^ "The Walrus waddles away with the most magazine awards". CBC. June 7, 2008. Retrieved August 26, 2013.