Arno Kopecky

Arno Kopecky
Arno Kopecky
Occupation	journalist, non-fiction
Nationality	Canadian
Period	2010s-present
Notable works	The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway

Arno Kopecky is a Canadian journalist and travel writer. His book The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway won the 2014 Edna Staebler Award,[1] and was shortlisted for the 2014 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize[2] and the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.[3]

In addition to his books, Kopecky has also been published in newspapers and magazines including The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Reader's Digest, Maclean's, The Tyee and Foreign Policy. He lives in Squamish, British Columbia.

Works

The Devil's Curve: A Journey into Power and Profit at the Amazon's Edge (2012, ISBN 978-1553658979)
The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014, ISBN 978-1771001076)

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

Winners of the Edna Staebler Award
1990s	Susan Mayse, Ginger (1991) Marie Wadden, Nitassinan, (1992) Liza Potvin, White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana (1993) Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life (1994) Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children (1995) George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy (1996) Anne Mullens, Timely Death (1997) Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King (1998) Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane (1999)
2000s	Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows (2000) Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues (2001) Tom Allen, Rolling Home (2002) Alison Watt, The Last Island (2003) Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue (2004) Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret (2005) Francis Chalifour, After (2006) Linden MacIntyre, Causeway (2007) Bruce Serafin, Stardust (2008) Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House (2009)
2010s	John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life (2010) Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost (2011) Joshua Knelman, Hot Art (2012) Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss (2013) Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014) Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats (2015) Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club (2016) Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo (2017) Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018) Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)