Patrick Blennerhassett

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

Patrick Blennerhassett
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Early life and education

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.

Books
  • 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
  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.
  17. "The Fatalists". Quill and Quire. August 16, 2016.


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