Farley Mowat

Farley Mowat (1921-2014), born in Belleville, Ontario, the son of a librarian, landed in Sicily in 1943 with an infantry regiment and took part in the Italian campaign, from which he would draw several books. Sent to the Arctic in 1947 and 1948 to follow the caribou herds, he came back with the material for his first narratives. His books have sold more than seventeen million copies in fifty-two languages; he won the Governor General's Award in 1956 for a book intended for young readers, was criticised for his liberties with the facts, and gave his name to a Sea Shepherd ship. He died in 2014.

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