Wayne Grady (author)

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Wayne Grady (born 1948) is a Canadian writer, editor, and translator; currently working as the science editor of Equinox.

Grady won the 1989 Governor General's Award for French to English translation for On the eighth day and the John Glassco Prize for Literary Translation for Christopher Cartier of Hazelnut.

He has recently written Bringing Back the Dodo (2006), a collection of intuitive and humbling essays on our history with the natural world, extinction, and our effects on the planet.

He is married to writer Merilyn Simonds.

His other work includes

  • Chasing the Chinook: on the trail of Canadian words and culture. 1998.
  • The quiet limit of the world: a journey to the north pole to investigate global warming. 1997.
  • Vulture: nature's ghastly gourmet. 1997.
  • Toronto the wild: field notes of an urban naturalist. 1995.

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