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Andrew Unger is an award-winning writer from Manitoba, Canada, best known as the author and founder of the satirical news website The Unger Review (new home of The Daily Bonnet). His 2020 novel Once Removed (Turnstone Press) tells the story of a ghostwriter fighting against gentrification in a small Prairie town, and won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book at the Manitoba Book Awards. Since 2016, Andrew has written close to 3000 satirical articles and his website has been mentioned in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Globe and Mail, and even cited in the Canadian House of Commons. A collection of Daily Bonnet articles called The Best of the Bonnet (Turnstone Press) was released in 2021. Andrew has also written for the Globe and Mail, CBC.ca, the Winnipeg Free Press, Geez, Rhubarb, Ballast, Preservings, Alberta Views, and Friends Journal, and many others. A graduate of the University of Manitoba, Andrew is also a public speaker and educator and lives with his wife Erin in Steinbach. If you go back far enough, he is probably related to you.

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