He has also anchored CBC Radio's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics live from Beijing, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the 2014 Winter Olympics live from Sochi, and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.įor four consecutive years, he was voted Top Radio Personality in Toronto by the readers and editors of NOW Magazine. He has been working at CBC Radio for more than 10 years. He is also the co-host of Podcast Playlist on CBC Radio One. Matt Galloway is the host of Metro Morning on CBC Radio One, 99.1 FM, the top rated morning radio program in Toronto. In 2013 he published a new novel, Him Standing, for Orca Press and a new literary novel, Medicine Walk, with McClelland & Stewart was published in April 2014. It was the Peoples’ Choice winner in the national Canada Reads competition. His novel, Indian Horse, arrived in February 2012. Richard was the 2012 recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media & Communications and the 2013 recipient of the Canada Council on the Arts Molson Prize. As a published author he won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature for his 2011 memoir One Story, One Song, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction for his third novel Dream Wheels in 2007 and the Alberta Writers Guild Best Novel Award for his debut novel, Keeper'n Me, in 1994. Richard Wagamese was one of Canada's foremost Native authors and storytellers. Working as a professional writer since 1979, he was a newspaper columnist and reporter, radio and television broadcaster and producer, documentary producer and the author of thirteen titles from major Canadian publishers.Īs an Ojibway writer from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, Wagamese became the first Native Canadian to win a National Newspaper Award for Column Writing in 1991.
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