Alan Twigg, CM is a Canadian writer, publisher, and biographer. He published

BC Bookworld ''B.C. BookWorld'' is a British Columbia-based quarterly newspaper about the book trade. It was established in 1987. Founded by Alan Twigg in 1987, ''B.C. BookWorld'' is Canada's largest-circulation, independent publication about books. Missio ...

for many years, a trade newspaper for the

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book publishing industry, and ABCBookWorld, an online encyclopedia of British Columbia authors. He is a member of the

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, and recipient of the

Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence The Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence is administered by the BC Book Prizes and recognizes a writer who has contributed significantly to the development of literary excellence in British Columbia, as well as having written a substa ...

in 2016.

Early life and career

Twigg was born in 1952 in

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. He began freelance writing in the 1970s, and helped found the B.C. Book Prize in 1985. In the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote columns and reviews for the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, Quill and Quire, and the Toronto Star, as well as publishing books on the literature of Vancouver, British Columbian, Belizean, and Cuban history, the Dalai Lama, and soccer, among other topics. In 1987, he started BC Bookworld, a quarterly trade newspaper focused on British Columbia-based books and authors, both fiction and non-fiction. It is Canada's largest circulation book-related publication.

Books

Alan has written 22 books on a wide variety of topics, from BC Literary history, to biographies and travel journals. You may read about them on his website, http://www.alantwigg.com

References

External links

Records of Alan Twigg are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
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