Marcello DiCintio, 2024 Book Award Winner

Calgary writer Marcello Di Cintio is the author of five books, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades (winner of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the W. O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Prize), Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense (another Calgary Book Prize winner) and, most recently, Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers.

Di Cintio’s writing has also appeared in publications such as The International New York Times, The Walrus, Maclean's, Canadian Geographic and Afar. Di Cintio has served as a writer-in-residence at the Calgary Public Library, the University of Calgary and the Palestine Writing workshop.

Marcello's winning submission was for a chapter of his new book “Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers, Di Cintio’s sixth book, will appear in 2025.  It's a book about the lives of migrant farm workers in Canada.

Marcello previously won the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award in 2009 and 2005.

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