Marcello Di Cintio is a Canadian writer who has published several books, and many articles and essays in newspapers and magazines across North America and in the United Kingdom. In addition, he has worked as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary, the Calgary Public Library, and the Palestine Writing Workshop.
Biography
Marcello was born in
Calgary
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,
Alberta
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, Canada.
[Bio - Marcello Di Cintio](_blank)
/ref> He lives in Calgary with his son, Amedeo.
Education
Marcello studied Microbiology and English at the University of Calgary
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, and was also a member of the University of Calgary Wrestling Team. He graduated in 1997 with both BA and BSc degrees.
Bibliography
Nonfiction
* ''Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa'' (Insomniac Press, 2002)
* ''Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey Into the Heart of Iran'' (Knopf Canada, 2006)
* ''Walls: Travels Along the Barricades'' (Goose Lane Editions, 2012, Canada; Union Books, 2013, UK; Counterpoint Press, 2013, US; Vakon BG, 2014, Bulgaria; Lux Éditeur, 2017, Quebec and France)
* ''Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense'' (Goose Lane Editions, 2018, Canada; Saqi Books, 2018, UK; Counterpoint Press, 2018, US)
* ''Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers'' (Biblioasis, 2021)
* ''Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers'' (Biblioasis, 2025)
Awards
Di Cintio won the 2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best nonfiction book on Canadian political and social issues. It has been presented annually in Ottawa at the Writersâ ...
for his book ''Walls: Travels Along the Barricades''.[CBC - 2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize winner](_blank)
/ref> The award was made on March 6, 2013 at the Writers' Trust of Canada
The Writers' Trust of Canada () is a registered charity which provides financial support to Canadian writers.
Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, Margaret Laurence, and David Young (Canadian playwright), David Young; the W ...
's annual Politics and the Pen in Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the cor ...
, Ontario. ''Walls: Travels Along the Barricades'' was also nominated for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize
The RBC Taylor Prize (2000–2020), formerly known as the Charles Taylor Prize, was a Canadian literary award, presented by the Charles Taylor Foundation to the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction. It was named for Charles P. B. Taylo ...
for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2013 British Columbia National Award for Non-Fiction.
Di Cintio won the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize in 2012 for ''Walls: Travels Along the Barricades'' and, again, in 2018 for ''Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense''.
References
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Canadian non-fiction writers
Writers from Calgary
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)