Taras Grescoe

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Taras Grescoe, photographed near Lachute, Quebec
Taras Grescoe
Born1966 (1966) (age 58)
Toronto, Canada
OccupationWriter
Notable awards
Website
taras-grescoe.com

Taras Grescoe (born 1966)

McAuslan First Book Prize
.

Biography

Grescoe was born in 1966, in Toronto.[1]

From 1990 to 1994, Grescoe taught English in

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 our planets and Bottomfeeder: how the fish on our plates is killing our planets (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.

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, Montreal.[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,

The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation in 2010.[5]

Awards for Grescoe's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
2000 Sacré Blues Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist [6]
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
 Winner [7][8]
McAuslan First Book Prize
 Winner [9]
2001 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Winner [10]
2003 The End of Elsewhere Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
 Shortlist [8]
2008 Bottomfeeder Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Winner
IACP Award for Literary Food Writing Winner
2012 Straphanger Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist [11]
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
 Winner [8][12]
2013 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Shortlist [13]
2016 Shanghai Grand B.C. National Award for Canadian Nonfiction Shortlist [14][15]
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
 Shortlist [8]
2020 Possess the Air
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
 Winner [8][16][17]

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)
  • Possess the Air: Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome (2019)
  • The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past (2023)

References

  1. ^ a b c "Grescoe, Taras 1966-". Encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
  2. ^ Articles by Taras Grescoe at Canadian Geographic Archived 2011-11-17 at the Wayback Machine. Canadian Geographic, May 18, 2011.
  3. ^ "Taras Grescoe wins Writers' Trust" Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine. Dose, November 17, 2008.
  4. Quill and Quire. Archived
    from the original on 2022-07-12. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  5. ^ "Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation". Quebec Writers' Federation. Archived from the original on 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  6. ^ "Memoirs, histories vie for $60K Hilary Weston Prize". CBC News. 2012-09-25. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
  7. Montreal Gazette
    . 2000-12-01.
  8. ^ a b c d e "The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction". Quebec Writers' Federation. Archived from the original on 2022-09-28. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  9. Montreal Gazette
    . 2000-12-01.
  10. ^ Wilfrid Laurier University 2001: Taras Grescoe, retrieved 11/17/2012
  11. Quill and Quire. Archived
    from the original on 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  12. ^ Grondin, Mélanie (2012-11-21). "Quebec Writers' Federation Honors the Best". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 2013-01-09. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
  13. Quill and Quire. Archived
    from the original on 2015-12-10. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  14. ^ "Awards: Grammy Nominations; Center for Fiction First Novel; Canadian Nonfiction". Shelf Awareness. 2016-12-07. Archived from the original on 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  15. Quill and Quire. Archived
    from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  16. Quill and Quire. Archived
    from the original on 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
  17. Montreal Gazette. Archived
    from the original on 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2023-03-18.

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