Andrew Nikiforuk (born 1955) is a Canadian journalist and author. His writing has appeared in many outlets, including '' Saturday Night'', ''

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'', '' Alternatives Journal'', and national newspapers. He has won multiple National Magazine Awards for his work. In 1990, the ''

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'' awarded him an Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy to study AIDS and the failure of public health policy. He has also published numerous books, including ''Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Oil,'' which won the Governor General's Award in 2002 and ''Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent'', which won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for 2008-09 from the

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. In 2010, Nikiforuk became ''The Tyee'''s first writer in residence.

Awards

* 1989: Centre for Investigative Journalism Award in the ''magazine'' category for a 1988 article in '' Report on Business'' about the decline of the prairie wheat economy. * 1990: Centre for Investigative Journalism Award in the ''magazine'' category that he shared with Ed Struzik for the 1989 article "The Great Forest Sell-Off" in ''Report on Business''. * 2002: Governor General's Literary Award for Non-fiction for ''Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Oil'' * 2009: Rachel Carson Environment Book Award for ''Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent''

Books

*''School's Out: The Catastrophe in Public Education and What We Can Do About It'', Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1993, Hardcover, 207 pages, 978-0-92191-248-4 *''Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Epidemics, Plagues, Famines & Other Scourges'', Viking Canada, 1991, Hardcover, 200 pages, 978-0-67083-122-7 *''Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil'', Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2002, Paperback, 296 pages, 978-1-55199-101-6 *''Pandemonium: Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century'', Viking Canada (AHC), Hardcover, 320 pages, 978-0-67004-519-8 *''Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent'', Greystone Books, April 2010, paperback, 208 pages, *''Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests'', Greystone Books, August 2011, paperback, 240 pages, *''The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude'', Greystone Books, September 2012, hardcover, 296 pages, *

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