Andrew Westoll | |
|---|---|
| Born | Andrew Westoll |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Genre | Novelist, creative non-fiction |
| Notable works | The Riverbones, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary |
| Spouse | Samantha Westoll |
Andrew Westoll is a Canadian writer, who won the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for his non-fiction book The Chimps of Fauna Foundation: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery.[1]
A primatologist, Westoll previously published the travel memoir The Riverbones, about a year he spent studying capuchin monkeys in Suriname, in 2008.[2] He is also a contributor to The Walrus, Explore, Outpost and The Globe and Mail. He won a Canadian National Magazine Award in 2007 for his Explore article "Somewhere Up a Jungle River", an article that grew into a book, The Riverbones.[3]
In 2016, he published The Jungle South of the Mountain, his first novel.[2]