Wayne Grady (author)
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Wayne Grady is a Canadian
writer, editor, and translator; currently working as the science editor of Equinox.
Grady won the 1989 Governor General's Award for French to English translation
for On the Eighth Day, the John Glassco Prize for Literary Translation for Christopher Cartier of Hazelnut and the 2008 National Outdoor Book Award
(Nature and the Environment category) for The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region.
He has recently written Bringing Back the Dodo (2006), a collection of intuitive and humbling essays on our history with the natural world, extinction, and our effects on the planet.
He is married to writer Merilyn Simonds
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His other work includes
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
writer, editor, and translator; currently working as the science editor of Equinox.
Grady won the 1989 Governor General's Award for French to English translation
Governor General's Award for French to English translation
This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for French-to-English translation.-1980s:*1987: Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy*1988: Philip Stratford, Second Chance...
for On the Eighth Day, the John Glassco Prize for Literary Translation for Christopher Cartier of Hazelnut and the 2008 National Outdoor Book Award
National Outdoor Book Award
The National Outdoor Book Award was formed in 1997 as a US-based non-profit program which each year honors the best in outdoor writing and publishing. It is housed at Idaho State University and chaired by Ron Watters. Awards are presented in ten categories. The award is announced in early November...
(Nature and the Environment category) for The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region.
He has recently written Bringing Back the Dodo (2006), a collection of intuitive and humbling essays on our history with the natural world, extinction, and our effects on the planet.
He is married to writer Merilyn Simonds
Merilyn Simonds
Merilyn Simonds is a Canadian writer.- Biography :Merilyn Simonds spent her childhood in Brazil, and returned to Canada as a teenager, where she was educated at the University of Western Ontario. She subsequently worked as a freelance writer, and was an editor of Harrowsmith.Her most famous book...
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His other work includes
- The Great Lakes: A Natural History of a Changing Region. 2007
- Tree: A Life StoryTree: A Life StoryTree: A Life Story is a Canadian non-fiction book written by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady, and illustrated by Robert Bateman. The book profiles the life of a Douglas-fir tree, from seed to maturity to death...
- Chasing the Chinook: on the trail of Canadian words and culture. 1998.
- The quiet limit of the world: a journey to the north pole to investigate global warming. 1997.
- Vulture: nature's ghastly gourmet. 1997.
- Toronto the wild: field notes of an urban naturalist. 1995.