Deni Ellis Béchard

My Favourite Crime

Essays and Journalism from Around the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays that are at once personal and political, covering a variety of topics, ranging from the author's tumultuous relationship with his criminal father and the ways writing can help us transform our own understanding to long-form journalistic dispatches from around the globe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Talonbooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781772012323
• ISBN-10: 1772012327
• Artikelnr.: 55023055

Autorenporträt

Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of Vandal Love (Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book); Of Bonobos and Men (Grand Prize winner of the Nautilus Book Award for investigative journalism); Cures for Hunger, a memoir about his bank robber father (selected as one of the best memoirs of 2012 by Amazon.ca); and Into the Sun (Midwest Book Award for literary fiction, selected by CBC Radio Canada as one of 2017's Incontournables and one of the most important books of the year to be read by Canada's political leaders); Kuei, My Friend: A Conversation on Racism and Reconciliation, an epistolary book of young-adult non-fiction co-authored with Innu poet Natasha Kanapé Fontaine; White, a novel exploring the legacy of colonialism and the impact of neocolonialism in the Congo and in Canada; and A Song from Faraway, a short-story collection forthcoming in 2020. He has reported from India, Cuba, Rwanda, Colombia, Iraq, the Congo, and Afghanistan. He has been a finalist for a Canadian National Magazine Award and has been featured in Best Canadian Essays 2017, and his photojournalism has been exhibited in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.