Everett Wayne Morgan Nyberg (born 16 March 1944) is a Canadian writer andEnglish as a Second Language teacher. Nyberg began his education career inBritish Columbia in 1978. He taught high school inQuito, Ecuador from 1984 to 1986. In 1988, Nyberg left Canada to teach inAveiro, Portugal and later in theSultanate of Oman. Outside of education, Nyberg wrote poetry in the 1970s before turning to fiction in 1980. His first novel,Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army won the 1987Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature.
On 16 March 1944, Nyberg was born inThunder Bay, Ontario. He grew up in southern British Columbia. For his post-secondary education, he initially went to theUniversity of British Columbia, where he earned aBachelor of Arts degree in 1966. He later returned to UBC in the late 1970s and became acertified teacher.[1] In 2004 he was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in English Linguistics from theUniversity of Central England, Birmingham.
Nyberg began his education career as acreative writing instructor atDouglas College from 1974 to 1975. From 1975 to 1978 he worked at various labor jobs. He worked as a secondary schoolsubstitute teacher in Vancouver between 1978 and 1982. Nyberg went on to teachEnglish as a Second Language atVancouver Community College from 1982 to 1984 before leaving forQuito, Ecuador.[1] There he taught high school English atColegio Americano. From 1988 to 1998 Nyberg taught at theUniversity of Aveiro, Portugal.[2] In 1998 he moved to theSultanate of Oman to teach English as a Foreign Language atSultan Qaboos University in Muscat. He remained there until his retirement in 2010, when he returned to British Columbia to live.
Outside of education, Nyberg released a book of poetry titledThe Crazy Horse Suite, a collection of poems for four voices, in 1978, before switching to fiction in 1980.[3]The Crazy Horse Suite was broadcast as an hour-long production onCBC Radio's Hornby Collection in 1982. He continued writing while in Quito during the mid-1980s.Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army was published in 1987,[4] winning theGovernor General's Award for English-language children's literature for that year.[5] Nyberg published again in 1998 with the adult novelEl Dorado Shuffle before publishing another children's book,Bad Day in Gladland in 2011. Throughout the 2010s, Nyberg continued writing adult fiction withMr. Millennium in 2011 and apost-apocalyptic fiction series set in British Columbia,The Raincoast Saga.[6][7]