Timothy Taylor
BACKGROUND:
Timothy Taylor published his first novel Stanley Park in 2001. It was an immediate bestseller and a critical success. He's since published a prize-winning collection of short fiction, Silent Cruise, and a second bestselling and critically acclaimed novel, Story House. He is the winner of the Journey Prize, and has been finalist or runner-up for six other major national fiction prizes in Canada, including the prestigious Giller Prize. His work has also been chosen as the ‘One Book One City’ selection for Vancouver and named a finalist for Canada Reads.
Taylor has also been widely published and recognized for his non-fiction magazine and newspaper work. He's presently the Big Ideas columnist for the Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine, and has been winner or finalist in a dozen separate magazine awards, including a recent bronze medal at the Folio: Eddie Magazine Awards in New York.
Taylor is a contributing editor at EnRoute Magazine and Vancouver Magazine. He has also written for Institutional Investor, The Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, Western Living, The Vancouver Review, Toro Magazine, Saturday Night, Adbusters, the National Post, the Vancouver Sun and many others.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:
2011 Western Magazine Award, Gold, Arts Culture and Entertainment, Watching the Waterfront, Vancouver Review
2010 Western Magazine Award, Gold, Arts Culture and Entertainment, Foodville Part One, Vancouver Review
2010 Western Magazine Award, Gold, Best Article BC/Yukon, Foodville Part One, Vancouver Review
2010 National Magazine Award, Travel, Gold - Walking the Way, Walrus
2010 National Magazine Award, Personal Journalism, Finalist - Walking the Way, Walrus
2009 North American Travel Journalism Association Merit Award
2008 Folio: Eddie Magazine Award, Bronze Medal
2008 Western Magazine Award, Finalist
2008 National Magazine Award, Finalist
2007 Canada Reads Finalist, Stanley Park
2007 Magnum Opus Gold Award
2006 Magazine du Quebec, Grand Prix
2005 National Magazine Award, Silver
2004 Lowell Thomas / Society of American Travel Writers Award, Silver
2004 Northern Lights Travel Writing Award, Silver
2004 One Book One Vancouver selection, Stanley Park
2003 Globe and Mail 100 Best Books of the Year, Silent Cruise
2002 Danuta Gleed Award, runner-up
2002 National Magazine Award, Gold, Time Warp, first published in Saturday Night
2002 Globe and Mail 100 Best Books of the Year, Stanley Park
2001 Giller Prize Finalist
2001 Writers Trust Prize Finalist
2001 BC Book Awards Finalist
2001 Vancouver Book Awards Finalist
2001 Torgi Book Awards Finalist
2000 National Magazine Award, Silver
2000 Journey Prize, winner
1996 National Magazine Award, Finalist