David Carpenter

David Carpenter is the author of 14 books, mostly fiction and nonfiction, including his work with Augie Merasty in The Education of Augie Merasty, for which he won several awards. He has won several Saskatchewan Book Awards, including Book of the Year for his critique of modern hunting practices, A Hunter’s Confession. He won the Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence in 2015 and was presented with an honorary doctorate for his work from the University of Saskatchewan in 2018. Since boyhood he has spent many summers in the bush, canoeing, fishing, hiking and camping, a nature-obsessed lover of wild animals and wilderness habitats.