Michael Johansen is a writer who lives on the edge of the Labrador wilderness. He has been a print, radio, and television journalist since the late 1980s, writing for newspapers, wire services and magazines in Canada and abroad. He was born near Toronto in 1962 and studied in Ontario, Scotland, and Nova Scotia, afterward spending several years living in various European countries, notably Denmark and the former German Democratic Republic. He settled in the village of North West River in 1997. In between writing and travelling restores his home, a heritage building that has a historic connection to a famous local writer, the late Elizabeth Goudie. He has one novel published and more manuscripts under consideration. He conducts writing workshops at festivals, conferences and schools and was recently writer-in-residence at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Currently, he is founding editor of Labrador Life magazine and writes a weekly syndicated column.
PUBLICATIONS:
Confession in Moscow. St. John’s, Breakwater Books, 2003
AWARDS:
Lawrence Martin Writing Award, 2006
Shortlisted: Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel , 2003
Shortlisted: ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year for Fiction/Mystery , 2003
National Newspaper Association Award, 1993
Atlantic Community Newspapers Association Award, 1989
