Russell Wangersky is a

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journalist and writer of fiction and

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. Born in

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, and raised in Canada since the age of three, Wangersky was educated at

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. He has been page editor of ''

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'' in St. John's, as well as a columnist and magazine writer. He has been nominated for the

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four times, and has won once, as well as several Canadian awards for

writing. He is also a four-time National Magazine Award finalist. He published his debut short story collection, ''The Hour of Bad Decisions'', in 2006. The collection was named to the initial longlist for the 2006

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, and was also a finalist for the Winterset Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize - Canada and the Caribbean, and the

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. His book '' Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself'', a non-fiction memoir of his 20 years as a volunteer firefighter, was released in Canada by Thomas Allen Publishers in March 2008. It was a finalist for the

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, and won British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the

Edna Staebler Award The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is an annual literary award recognizing the previous year's best creative nonfiction book with a "Canadian locale and/or significance" that is a Canadian writer's "first or second published book ...

for

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, the Drummer-General Prize for Non-Fiction and the Rogers Television Newfoundland and Labrador Non-Fiction Prize. His 2011 novel ''The Glass Harmonica'' won the 2011 Winterset Award. His 2012 short story collection '' Whirl Away'' was a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and won the 2013

Thomas Head Raddall Award The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.

."Wangersky wins fiction award for ‘Whirl Away’"
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'', September 23, 2013. Jason Buxton adapted "Sharp Corner", from ''Whirl Away'', into the 2024 feature film '' Sharp Corner''.Alex Ritman
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'', February 14, 2024.

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