NEWS

'09/'10

Check out homeforthegames : Charles and his friends are using the Vancouver 2010 Olympics to boost happiness, by pairing Games visitors with Vancouver hosts, and diverting half the rents to charity.

Two stories of broken cities on opposite sides of the world were finalists for National Magazine Awards. Read the Grim Repo and the Archipelago of Fear here.

'08

Charles is spending the year learning lessons on happiness and cities in Kabul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Portland and Mexico City. Look for stories in Dwell, EnRoute, Vancouver Magazine and The Walrus.

'07

Will we ever be on the same page?Charles writes on ethics and climate change negotiations for The Globe and Mail.

Me Want More Square Footage: Charles writes in The Walrus.

Port Eliot Festival

Cornwall, UK: Charles shares stories from the South Pacific, July 21/22.

From Living Hell to Living Well: Once-infernal Bogota, Colombia, now leads the world's urban happiness movement. Charles writes in the Globe & Mail.

Moving mountains

Melting glaciers trigger catastrophic landslides in the St. Elias Mountains. Charles writes in Canadian Geographic.

Mr. Cool, Charles' report on Canada's climate change debate, wins a citation from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.

'06

The Shark God gets

thumbs up in reviews from Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian and The New York Times.

Read Mr. Cool, Charles' report on Canadian climate change skeptics

(Globe & Mail, Aug. 12)

'Into the Megalopolis,' in Explore Magazine wins at National Magazine Awards.

Urban planners across North America look to Vancouver for advice. Read Futureville in Canadian Geographic.

Way Out There, the new anthology of adventure writing, includes Charles' Searching for Big Man Magik. Buy the book.

The Last Heathen awarded the 2005 Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize. Read more

'05

The Last Heathen awarded the 2005 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction. Read more

The Last Heathen short-listed for two Writers' Trust of Canada prizes.

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04

The Globe and Mail names the Last Heathen one of the best 100 books published in 2004. What are the critics saying?

'Heaven Can Wait,' in Western Living Magazine wins at the 2004 Canadian National Magazine Awards and Western Magazine Awards. Read it here.

 

 

 
 

Charles Montgomery is an award-winning writer and photographer who tells stories about people, cities, science and myth.

These days, he's fascinated by the emerging science of happiness, and how its lessons are changing the way we shape our lives and cities. His next book, Happy City, will look at how this science is being used to fix broken cities in America and around the world. Read more here.

Charles based his first book on his search for the origins of myth in the South Pacific archipelago of Melanesia. The Last Heathen was published in Canada in 2004 to vigorous praise. The book was published internationally as The Shark God in 2006.

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All stories and pictures © Charles Montgomery except where noted.