Andrew 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.

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

In 2016, he published The Jungle South of the Mountain, his first novel.

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"