Wayne Grady (author)

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Wayne Grady (author)

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Wayne Grady
Born	1948 (age 75–76) Windsor, Ontario
Occupation	translator, science writer, novelist
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1990s-present
Notable works	Emancipation Day, Tree: A Life Story
Spouse	Merilyn Simonds

For the Australian professional golfer, see Wayne Grady.

Wayne Grady (born 1948 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, editor, and translator. He is the author of fourteen books of nonfiction, the translator of more than a dozen novels from the French, and the editor of many literary anthologies of fiction and nonfiction. He currently teaches creative writing in the MFA program at the University of British Columbia.

As a translator, Grady has won the 1989 Governor General's Award for French to English translation for On the Eighth Day, his translation of Antonine Maillet's novel Le Huitième jour, and the John Glassco Translation Prize for Christopher Cartier of Hazelnut, his translation of Maillet's Christophe Cartier de la Noisette dit Nounours. As a writer, he won the 2008 National Outdoor Book Award (Nature and the Environment category) for The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region.

His book Bringing Back the Dodo (2006) is a collection of intuitive and humbling essays on our history with the natural world, extinction, and our effects on the planet.

His first novel, Emancipation Day, deals with the marriage, during the Second World War, of a black man who is passing for white, and a white woman who knows nothing of her husband's past; the novel was inspired by Grady's discovery, while doing genealogical research, that his own great-grandfather was an African American emigrant from the United States.^[1] Emancipation Day was named a longlisted nominee for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.^[2] October 1970, his English translation of Louis Hamelin's 2010 novel La Constellation du Lynx, was also a longlisted nominee for the Giller in the same year.^[2] On April 29, 2014, Emancipation Day was named the winner of the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.^[3]

Grady is married to writer Merilyn Simonds.^[1]

Works

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The Dinosaur Project: The Story of the Greatest Dinosaur Expedition Ever Mounted (1993)
Toronto the Wild: Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist (1995)
Vulture: Nature's Ghastly Gourmet (1997)
The Quiet Limit of the World: A Journey to the North Pole to Investigate Global Warming (1997)
Chasing the Chinook: On the Trail of Canadian Words and Culture (1998)
Tree: A Life Story (2004, co-authored with David Suzuki)
Bringing Back the Dodo (2006)
The Great Lakes: A Natural History of a Changing Region (2007)
Breakfast at the Exit Cafe: A Journey Through America (2010, co-authored with Merilyn Simonds)
Emancipation Day (2013)

References

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^ ^a ^b "Wayne Grady: Stranger than fiction". National Post, August 1, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Meet the Giller long list: This year’s literary prize has a distinct east-coast feel". The Globe and Mail, September 16, 2013.
^ "Windsor, Ont., writer Wayne Grady wins Amazon.ca First Novel Award". CBC News, April 30, 2014.

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation
1980s	Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy (1987) Philip Stratford, Second Chance (1988) Wayne Grady, On the Eighth Day (1989)
1990s	Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence (1990) Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z (1991) Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (1992) D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three (1993) Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers (1994) David Homel, Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? (1995) Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (1996) Howard Scott, The Euguelion (1997) Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me (1998) Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (1999)
2000s	Robert Majzels, Just Fine (2000) Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring (2001) Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light (2002) Jane Brierley, Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life (2003) Judith Cowan, Mirabel (2004) Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (2005) Hugh Hazelton, Vetiver (2006) Nigel Spencer, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction (2007) Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski (2008) Susan Ouriou, Pieces of Me (2009)
2010s	Linda Gaboriau, Forests (2010) Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (2011) Nigel Spencer, Mai at the Predators’ Ball (2012) Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (2013) Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (2014) Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (2015) Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (2016) Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (2017) Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (2018) Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (2019)
2020s	Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me (2020) Erín Moure, This Radiant Life (2021) Judith Weisz Woodsworth, History of the Jews in Quebec (2022) Peter McCambridge, Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (2023) Katia Grubisic, Nights Too Short to Dance (2024)

v t e Winners of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award
1970s	Ian McLachlan and Michael Ondaatje (1977) Oonah McFee (1978) Joan Barfoot (1979)
1980s	Clark Blaise (1980) W. D. Valgardson (1981) Joy Kogawa (1982) W. P. Kinsella (1983) Heather Robertson (1984) Geoffrey Ursell (1985) Wayne Johnston (1986) Karen Lawrence (1987) Marion Quednau (1988) Rick Salutin (1989)
1990s	Sandra Birdsell (1990) Nino Ricci (1991) Rohinton Mistry (1992) John Steffler (1993) Deborah Joy Corey (1994) Shyam Selvadurai (1995) Keath Fraser (1996) Anne Michaels (1997) Margaret Gibson (1998) André Alexis (1999)
2000s	David Macfarlane and Alan R. Wilson (2000) Eva Stachniak (2001) Michael Redhill (2002) Mary Lawson (2003) Michel Basilières (2004) Colin McAdam (2005) Joseph Boyden (2006) Madeleine Thien (2007) Gil Adamson (2008) Joan Thomas (2009)
2010s	Jessica Grant (2010) Eleanor Catton (2011) David Bezmozgis (2012) Anakana Schofield (2013) Wayne Grady (2014) Alix Hawley (2015) Mona Awad (2016) Katherena Vermette (2017) Michael Kaan (2018) Casey Plett (2019)
2020s	Stéphane Larue (2020) Michelle Good (2021) Pik-Shuen Fung (2022) Jasmine Sealy (2023) Alicia Elliott (2024)

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