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Russell Smith was born on 2 August, 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa, is a Canadian writer and newspaper columnist. Discover Russell Smith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 2 August, 1963
Birthday 2 August
Birthplace Johannesburg, South Africa
Nationality Canada

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1963

Russell Claude Smith (born August 2, 1963 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a Canadian writer and newspaper columnist.

Smith's novels and short stories are mostly set in Toronto, where he lives.

Smith grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

He attended the Halifax Grammar School and Queen Elizabeth High School, and studied French literature at Queen's University, the University of Poitiers, and the University of Paris III.

He has an MA in French from Queen's.

As a freelance reporter and cultural commentator, he has published in the New York Review of Books, Details, The Walrus,Toronto Life, Flare, Now, EnRoute and other journals.

1994

His early novels, How Insensitive (1994) and Noise (1998), are satirical and comic portrayals of big-city life and the sexual mores of young people.

How Insensitive was nominated for the Governor General's Award, at that time the most prestigious Canadian literary prize.

Noise was published in German as Glamour by List Verlag.

1995

He won the William Allen White award for magazine writing in 1995.

1997

The opening story in that collection, "Party Going", won the Canadian National Magazine Award for fiction in 1997.

He then published an illustrated fantasy novella, The Princess and the Whiskheads, an allegory about the role of art in a metropolis.

The illustrations were by Wesley Bates.

1999

From 1999 to 2020, Smith wrote a weekly column on the arts for The Globe and Mail.

On resigning from the column, Smith published an article in The Walrus blaming his departure on a lack of editorial support.

He was the host of the CBC radio program on language, And Sometimes Y, for two seasons.

His book of short stories, Young Men, followed in 1999.

2003

His pornographic novel, Diana: A Diary in the Second Person (2003), was published by Gutter Press under the pseudonym Diane Savage.

2004

Muriella Pent (2004) is a longer and more ambitious novel, concerning the arrival of a Caribbean writer of mixed race in the stodgy environment of official Canadian culture.

It was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and named as Best Fiction of 2004 by Amazon.ca.

2005

In 2005 Thomas Dunne Books published Smith's non-fiction book, Men's Style: The Thinking Man's Guide To Dress, which is based on his regular column on men's fashion in the Canadian national newspaper, The Globe and Mail.

The book was illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham.

Smith's memoir Blindsided: How Twenty Years of Writing About Booze, Drugs and Sex Ended in the Blink of an Eye is available as an e-book.

2008

The novel was republished, under his own name, with a new introduction, by Biblioasis in 2008.

2009

Smith taught the Fiction Workshop in the University of Guelph's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing programme from 2009 to 2017.

2010

His novel Girl Crazy was published by HarperCollins Canada in 2010.

2015

His short story collection, Confidence, was published in 2015, and was longlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

One of the stories in that collection, "Raccoons", won the Canadian National Magazine Award for fiction in that year.

2018

In 2018, Smith compiled and edited the anthology Best Canadian Stories 2018 (Biblioasis).

2019

In 2019 he became an acquiring editor for Dundurn Press.

Smith was born with complete complex syndactyly, having inherited the deformity from his father and grandfather; Smith's own son, Hugo, was born with the condition.

2020

In 2020, Smith translated Quebec novelist Nadine Bismuth's novel Un Lien Familial, as A Family Affair (Anansi).