David Manicom
David Alton Manicom (born July 19, 1960) is a Canadian diplomat, civil servant, poet and novelist.
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David Manicom
- Birth Name
- David Alton Manicom
- Born
- 19 July 1960
- Birthplace
- Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada
- Occupation
- Civil servant, diplomat, poet, novelist
- Education
- University of Toronto McGill University
- Awards
- Quebec Writer’s Federation’s non-fiction prize
- Nationality
- Canada
- Honours
- Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction
- Languages
- English
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• Birth Name — David Alton Manicom • Born — 19 July 1960 • Birthplace — Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada • Occupation — Civil servant, diplomat, poet, novelist • Language — English • Education — University of Toronto McGill University • Awards — Quebec Writer’s Federation’s non-fiction prize
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David Manicom (born 1960) is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. David Manicom was born in 1960.
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Manicom was born in Ingersoll, Ontario, and lived there until he attended the University of Toronto and McGill University in Montreal. He has also lived in Aylmer, Quebec, Moscow, Islamabad, Beijing, Geneva and New Delhi. He has contributed to numerous publications, including Rubicon, AWOL, Words Apart and Quarry. Manicom's The Burning Eaves (2003) was a finalist for the 2004 Governor General's Awards for English Language Poetry, while Progeny of Ghosts (1998) won the Quebec Writer's Federation prize for non-fiction and was short-listed for the National Writer's Trust Viacom award for non-fiction. He is currently the associate assistant deputy minister of the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.
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