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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, Canada.Bio - Marcello Di Cintio
/ref> He lives in Calgary with his son, Amedeo.

Education

Marcello studied Microbiology and English at the

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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)

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 Writer ...

for his book ''Walls: Travels Along the Barricades''.CBC - 2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize winner
/ref> The award was made on March 6, 2013 at the

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's annual Politics and the Pen in Ottawa, 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, is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Charles Taylor Foundation to the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction. It is named for Charles P. B. Taylor, a ...

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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