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Canadian journalist and nonfiction writer
Andrew Westoll
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Canadian journalist and nonfiction writer
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The Riverbones, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
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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.
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- The Riverbones (2008)
- The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary (2011)
- The Jungle South of the Mountain (2016)
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- 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
- 2007 Gold National Magazine Award for "Somewhere Up a Jungle River"
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