Awards & Winners

Michael Ignatieff

Date of Birth 12-May-1947
Place of Birth Toronto
(Ontario, Canada)
Nationality Canada
Also know as Iggy
Profession Novelist, Philosopher, Politician, Author, Journalist, Screenwriter, Professor, Writer
Michael Grant Ignatieff P.C. is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Harvard University and the University of Toronto. While living in the United Kingdom from 1978 to 2000, Ignatieff became well known as a television and radio broadcaster and as an editorial columnist for The Observer. His documentary series Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism aired on BBC in 1993, and won a Canadian Gemini Award. His book of the same name, based on the series, won the Gordon Montador Award for Best Canadian Book on Social Issues and the University of Toronto's Lionel Gelber Prize. His memoir, The Russian Album, won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and the British Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Prize in 1988. His novel, Scar Tissue, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1994. In 2000, he delivered the Massey Lectures, entitled The Rights Revolution, which was released in print later that year.

Awards by Michael Ignatieff

Check all the awards nominated and won by Michael Ignatieff.

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Onegin

1995


Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series
Honored for : Blood and Belongings

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Gemini Award for Best Writing in an Information/Documentary Program or Series Blood and Belongings
Gemini Award for Best Anchor or Interviewer Blood and Belongings

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize Scar Tissue

1987


Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction
Honored for : The Russian Album

Nominations 1987 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction The Russian Album