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Patrick Blennerhassett

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Patrick Blennerhassett
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Patrick Blennerhassett is a Canadian journalist and author who currently lives in Las Vegas.[1][2]

Early life and education

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Blennerhassett was born in Vancouver, and raised in Kamloops, British Columbia.[3] He is a Thompson Rivers University graduate,[4] who also attended Langara College and Simon Fraser University.[5] His work has been published in such outlets as The Guardian and The Globe & Mail.

Blennerhassett has published four novels.[6][7] He is also a freelance journalist and regularly contributes articles to Business in Vancouver.[8]

In 2007 Blennerhassett was the recipient of a Jack Webster Foundation Fellowship Award.[9]

In 2016 Blennerhassett published a non-fiction book about Olympic field hockey player Balbir Singh Sr.[10][11]

Blennerhassett previously worked for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. In 2018 he wrote a feature article for The Guardian about a rash of deaths of men in his hometown of Kamloops. He is currently a business and economics journalist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Blennerhassett is married to former UFC fighter Ramona Pascual.

Books

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  • Monument[12][13]
  • Random Acts of Vandalism[14][15]
  • A Forgotten Legend: Balbir Singh Sr., Triple Olympic Gold & Modi's New India[16]
  • The Fatalists[17]

References

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  1. ^ "Random acts of writing", by Dale Bass – Kamloops This Week, October 19, 2011
  2. ^ "Patrick Blennerhassett | writer/Journalist". Archived from the original on April 10, 2021. Retrieved July 15, 2022.
  3. ^ Fact or fiction? | Kamloops This Week
  4. ^ "Patrick Blennerhassett BGM '17 – TRU Newsroom". inside.tru.ca.
  5. ^ "BLENNERHASSETT, Patrick". ABC Bookworld
  6. ^ Patrick Blennerhassett's Bio from http://www.nonpublishing.com/patrick+blennerhassett/author/1/5/
  7. ^ "Langley authors offer plenty to put under the tree this Christmas". BC Local. December 12, 2011
  8. ^ "Patrick Blennerhassett | Business in Vancouver".
  9. ^ "Jack Webster Foundation Fellowship Award Winners". The Jack Webster Foundation.
  10. ^ "Burnaby man was once India's biggest field hockey star". CBC News, Rafferty Baker, February 20, 2016
  11. ^ "Local Journalist Tells Story Of Forgotten Indo-Canadian Hockey Legend". LinkPaper, February 13, 2016
  12. ^ Patrick Blennerhassett – Monument – Interview | Literary Photographer
  13. ^ "Monument". The Reading Room
  14. ^ Random Acts of Vandalism – Monday Magazine
  15. ^ Darkness in the dawn | Arts & Entertainment | Kamloops Daily News
  16. ^ March 6, Charlie Gillis (March 6, 2016). "The greatest hockey player ever". Macleans.ca.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ "The Fatalists". Quill and Quire. August 16, 2016.