Taras Grescoe Explained

Birth Place:Toronto, Canada
Occupation:Writer
Taras Grescoe
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Taras Grescoe (born 1966)[1] is a Canadian non-fiction writer. His debut book, Sacré Blues, won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, and McAuslan First Book Prize. His fourth book, Bottomfeeder, won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, awarded to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer, in 2008, as well as the IACP Award for Literary Food Writing.

Biography

Grescoe was born in 1966, in Toronto.

From 1990 to 1994, Grescoe taught English in Paris, after which he moved to Montreal and began working as a travel journalist. He has since contributed to Canadian Geographic,[2] The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, The Smithsonian, Monocle, Afar, National Geographic, Food & Wine, Salon, L'actualité, The New Yorker, The Independent, The Guardian, Salon, National Geographic Traveler, the Times of London, Gourmet, Wired, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, 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 the Planet (Pan/Macmillan 2012).

Since the publication of Straphanger, he has published op-eds, given keynotes, and developed a social media following commenting on urbanism, transit, and active transport. Since 2023, he has written a regular newsletter for the Quebec newsmagazine L'actualité on trains, transit, urbanism, and sustainable transportation.

He has served as juror at the Canada Council for the Arts (publishing) and for the Marian Hebb Research Grant. Since the beginning of 2023, he has been a professor of Creative Writing, specializing in literary journalism, at Concordia University in Montreal.

He lives in Outremont, Quebec.[3]

Awards and honours

In 2022, Grescoe won a Marian Hebb Research Grant, which is intended to support "inquiry and exploration relevant to Canadian publishing, writing and visual arts, and toward the realization of a publishable work in progress.”[4] He is a fellow of the Fondation Michalski in Montricher, Switzerland, where he worked during a six-week residency in the summer of 2022.

In addition to the below, Hélène Rioux's translation of Bottomfeeder was shortlisted for The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation in 2010.[5]

Awards for Grescoe's writing!Year!Title!Award!Result!Ref.
2000Sacré BluesHilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionShortlist[6]
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-FictionWinner[7] [8]
Winner[9]
2001Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionWinner[10]
2003The End of ElsewhereHilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionShortlist
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-FictionShortlist
2008BottomfeederHilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionWinner
IACP Award for Literary Food WritingWinner
2012StraphangerHilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionShortlist[11]
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-FictionWinner[12]
2013Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingShortlist[13]
2016Shanghai GrandB.C. National Award for Canadian NonfictionShortlist[14] [15]
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-FictionShortlist
2020Possess the AirMavis Gallant Prize for Non-FictionWinner[16] [17]

Books

An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec (2000)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Grescoe, Taras 1966- . 2023-03-19 . . 2021-09-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210917224345/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/grescoe-taras-1966 . live .
  2. http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/back_issues/contributor.asp?contrib=Taras_Grescoe&id=1790 Articles by Taras Grescoe at Canadian Geographic
  3. http://www2.dose.ca/books/story.html?id=e6e6dcfa-2ed5-4584-8a47-62a77b6cbc06 "Taras Grescoe wins Writers' Trust"
  4. Web site: Drudi . Cassandra . 2022-06-16 . Access Copyright Foundation announces recipients of 2022 Marian Hebb Research Grants . 2023-03-20 . . en . 2022-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220712120835/https://quillandquire.com/omni/access-copyright-announces-recipients-of-2022-marian-hebb-research-grants/ . live .
  5. Web site: Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220930185513/https://qwf.org/prize/le-prix-de-traduction-de-la-fondation-cole-the-cole-foundation-prize-for-translation/ . 2022-09-30 . 2023-03-17 . Quebec Writers' Federation.
  6. Web site: 2012-09-25 . Memoirs, histories vie for $60K Hilary Weston Prize . 2023-03-18 . CBC News.
  7. News: 2000-12-01 . Grescoe a double-winner at Quebec writers' awards: Distinct-society analysis gets two English-language book prizes . Montreal Gazette.
  8. Web site: The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220928131325/https://qwf.org/prize/the-mavis-gallant-prize-for-non-fiction/ . 2022-09-28 . 2023-03-17 . Quebec Writers' Federation.
  9. News: 2000-12-01 . Grescoe a double-winner at Quebec writers' awards: Distinct-society analysis gets two English-language book prizes . Montreal Gazette.
  10. https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140606164201/https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2529&p=11312 Wilfrid Laurier University
  11. Web site: Woods . Stuart . 2012-11-13 . Candace Savage celebrates Weston Prize win . 2023-03-20 . . en . 2021-01-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210118022103/https://quillandquire.com/awards/2012/11/12/candace-savage-celebrates-weston-prize-win/ . live .
  12. Web site: Grondin . Mélanie . 2012-11-21 . Quebec Writers' Federation Honors the Best . 2023-03-18 . . en . 2013-01-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130109121529/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/54858-quebec-writers-federation-honors-the-best.html . live .
  13. Web site: Sequeira . Natalie . 2013-01-15 . Finalists for Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing announced . 2023-03-20 . . en . 2015-12-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151210092019/http://www.quillandquire.com/awards/2013/01/15/finalists-for-shaughnessy-cohen-prize-for-political-writing-announced/ . live .
  14. Web site: 2016-12-07 . Awards: Grammy Nominations; Center for Fiction First Novel; Canadian Nonfiction . 2023-03-20 . . 2022-12-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221209003803/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2895 . live .
  15. Web site: Robertson . Becky . 2017-01-30 . Sandra Martin wins 2017 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction . 2023-03-20 . . en . 2022-05-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220524163958/https://quillandquire.com/awards/2017/01/30/sandra-martin-wins-2017-b-c-national-award-for-canadian-non-fiction/ . live .
  16. Web site: Porter . Ryan . 2020-11-05 . Kaie Kellough wins Quebec Writers' Federation's fiction prize . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221005084443/https://quillandquire.com/omni/kaie-kellough-wins-quebec-writers-federations-fiction-prize/ . 2022-10-05 . 2023-03-17 . . en.
  17. Web site: Dunlevy . T'Cha . 2020-11-06 . Kaie Kellough wins fiction prize at Quebec Writers' Federation Awards . 2023-03-18 . . en-CA . 2022-05-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220517211216/https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/books/kaie-kellough-wins-fiction-prize-at-quebec-writers-federation-awards . live .

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