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John Ibbitson | |
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| Born | 1955 (age 69–70) Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto (B.A.) University of Western Ontario (M.A.) |
| Genre | Fiction, non-fiction |
| Subject | Canadian politics,Canadian history |
| Notable works | 1812 Promised Land Loyal No More The Polite Revolution Open & Shut The Big Shift (co-author) Stephen Harper |
| Notable awards | Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, Trillium Book Award, City of Toronto Book Award, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing |
John Ibbitson (born 1955) is a Canadian journalist. Since 1999, he has been a political writer and columnist forThe Globe and Mail.[2]
Ibbitson graduated from theUniversity of Toronto in 1979 with a B.A. in English.[1] After university, he pursued a career as a playwright, his most notable play beingMayonnaise,[1] which debuted in December 1980 at the Phoenix Theatre inToronto, Ontario. The play went on to national production and was adapted to a TV broadcast in 1983.[1] In the mid-1980s, Ibbitson switched over to writing young adult fiction, including the science fiction novelStarcrosser (1990). He also wrote two full-length novels,1812: Jeremy's War andThe Night Hazel Came to Town.The Landing followed in 2008 - a winner of the 2008Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature. Apart from the latter Ibbitson has been nominated for several awards for other works, including aGovernor General's Award nomination for1812.[1]Hazel received a nomination for theTrillium Book Award and theCity of Toronto Book Award. His journalism has also been nominated for a National Newspaper Award.
Ibbitson entered theUniversity of Western Ontario in 1987. Upon graduating with an M.A. in journalism one year later, he joined theOttawa Citizen, where he worked as a city reporter and columnist. He covered Ontario politics from 1995 to 2001, working for theOttawa Citizen,Southam News, theNational Post andThe Globe and Mail. In August 2001, Ibbitson accepted the post ofWashington bureau chief atThe Globe and Mail,[1] returning to Canada one year later to take up the post of political affairs columnist.[1] He moved back to Washington as a columnist in May 2007, returning to Ottawa as bureau chief in September 2009. In December 2010 he became the paper's chief political writer. In that role, he has also frequently appeared on Canadian television news programs as a pundit and political analyst. In 2015 he became writer-at-large.
In 2013, Ibbitson andDarrell Bricker co-authored the bookThe Big Shift: The Seismic Change in Canadian Politics, Business, and Culture and What It Means for Our Future.[3] In January 2014 Ibbitson began a one-year leave of absence from theGlobe, to serve as a senior fellow at theCentre for International Governance Innovation and to work on a biography of Prime MinisterStephen Harper, which was published in August 2015. In 2016, the book won theShaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.[4]
Ibbitson and Bricker co-authored the book "Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline", which was published separately in 2019 in the United States, Great Britain and Canada, and in Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and Korean.[5]
He is married to Grant Burke.[1]
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