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Patrick Blennerhassett is a Canadian novelist and journalist who currently lives in Hong Kong.
Early life and education
Blennerhassett was born in Vancouver, and raised in Kamloops, British Columbia. He is a Thompson Rivers University graduate, who also attended Langara College and Simon Fraser University. His work has been published in such outlets as The Guardian and The Globe & Mail.
Blennerhassett has published four novels. He is also a freelance journalist and regularly contributes articles to Business in Vancouver.
In 2007 Blennerhassett was the recipient of a Jack Webster Foundation Fellowship Award.
In 2016 Blennerhassett published a non-fiction book about Olympic field hockey player Balbir Singh Sr.
Blennerhassett currently works for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. in 2018 he wrote a feature article for The Guardian about a rash of deaths of men in his hometown of Kamloops.
Books
- Monument
- Random Acts of Vandalism
- A Forgotten Legend: Balbir Singh Sr., Triple Olympic Gold & Modi's New India
- The Fatalists