Scott Griffin
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Scott Griffin is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's most generous poetry awards in 2000.
Griffin is the chairman and major shareholder of two manufacturing companies and the owner since 2002 of publisher House of Anansi Press. He is chairman and trustee of the Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry and Chancellor of Bishop's University.
Griffin is on several NGO boards, including the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) International Board based in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2006, Griffin published a memoir entitled My Heart is Africa that recounted his two-year aviation adventure, starting in 1996, working for the Flying Doctors Service in Africa. All royalties from the sale of the book are donated to the AMREF Flying Doctors Service. The book was named to the Globe and Mail top 100 for 2006.
Griffin is married to noted jewellery designer Krystyne Griffin and has four children and eight grandchildren.
[edit] External links
- Griffin Poetry Prize Web site
- Thomas Allen Publishers page on My Heart is Africa
- Poetry in Motion - A lucrative prize may train the public eye on the most ignored of arts, by John Bemrose (Macleans magazine, June, 2001)
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