Terry Glavin


Terry Glavin is a Canadian author and journalist.

Career

Born in the United Kingdom to Irish parents, he emigrated to Canada in 1957. Glavin has worked as a journalist and columnist for The Daily Columbian, The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, The Georgia Straight, and The Tyee. He has been with the Ottawa Citizen since 2011. He has contributed articles to many newspapers and magazines, including Canadian Geographic, Vancouver Review, Democratiya, The National Post, Seed, Adbusters, and Lettre International. He founded and was chief editor of Transmontanus Books, an imprint of New Star Books.
He was a sessional instructor in the Writing Department of the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Victoria, in Victoria BC, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Glavin's writing covers a wide range of regional and global topics from natural history and anthropology to current politics. His work as a journalist and writer have taken him to Central America, China, the Eastern Himalayas, the Russian Far East, Afghanistan, and Israel, and his books have been published in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. He is a signatory of the Euston Manifesto.

Newspaper articles

Glavin sometimes offers a mocking tone, such as in his "So much for having a rules-based international order. The G20 shows it no longer exists" article for the Ottawa Citizen..

Awards

In 2009, Glavin was awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence for contributing significantly to the development of literary excellence in British Columbia and the Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction. He has a total of eleven awards including several National Magazine Awards: