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Andrew Clark has received two National Magazine Award nominations in the “Humour” category.
Humber College announces that Andrew Clark will be its new Director of the Humber School of Comedy
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In The Walrus Magazine:
Andrew Clark, director of
From more than 2,100
individual entries nationwide, the NMAF’s 200 judges nominated a total of 303
submissions in 76 different Canadian magazines for awards in 39 categories. The
Gold, Silver and Honourable Mention awards will be announced in
Andrew Clark is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter living in Toronto. His last book, 'A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle', was nominated for the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-fiction Prize, Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and the Governor General's Award for Literary Non-fiction.
He is a professor at Humber College and the director of its comedy program.
In his book, 'Star-Spangled Canadians,' Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson dubbed Clark "the best chronicler of Canadian comedy." 'Stand and Deliver: Inside Canadian Comedy, his first book, was a history and examination of Canada's comic tradition.
Clark has written for the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Globe and Mail and was a senior writer for Maclean's magazine. He is currently at work on a novel. He has a dramatic series in development with the CBC.