Andrew Westoll is a Canadian writer, who won the 2012

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for his non-fiction book ''The Chimps of Fauna Foundation: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery''. A primatologist, Westoll previously published the travel

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'' The Riverbones'', about a year he spent studying

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s in

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, in 2008."Profile: Writing fiction gave Andrew Westoll a way to revisit his former life as a primatologist in South America"
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'', July 2016. He is also a contributor to ''

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'', ''Explore'', ''Outpost'' and ''

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''. He won a

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in 2007 for his ''Explore'' article "Somewhere Up a Jungle River", an article that grew into a book, ''The Riverbones''. In 2016, he published ''The Jungle South of the Mountain'', his first novel.

Works

*'' The Riverbones'' (2008) *''

The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary ''The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery'' is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Andrew Westoll, first published in May 2011 by HarperCollins. In the book, the author chronicles the time he spent v ...

'' (2011) *''The Jungle South of the Mountain'' (2016)

Awards and honors

*2012

for ''The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary'' *2007 Gold National Magazine Award for "Somewhere Up a Jungle River"

References

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