Andrew Unger
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Andrew Unger | |
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| Born | November 8, 1979 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Manitoba |
| Period | 2010s–present |
| Notable works | Once Removed, The Best of the Bonnet |
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| andrewunger | |
Andrew Unger (born November 8, 1979)[1] is a Canadian novelist and satirist. He is the author of the satirical news website The Unger Review (formerly The Daily Bonnet), as well as the novel Once Removed and the collection The Best of the Bonnet.[2][3]
Since 2010, Unger has been a contributor to numerous publications including The Globe and Mail, Geist, Geez, CBC.ca, and Ballast.[4][5] Early in his career, he also wrote and published fiction and poetry, sometimes publishing under the pen name Andrew J. Bergman, as well as working as a ghostwriter for New York-based Kevin Anderson & Associates.[6]
In 2016, Unger founded the Mennonite satirical news website The Daily Bonnet and, along with his wife Erin Koop Unger, the non-satirical website Mennotoba in 2017.[7] Since 2016, Unger has written more than two thousand Daily Bonnet articles.[6] The website has been visited millions of times each year and has been cited in debate in the Manitoba Legislature[8] and used as an example of Mennonite humour in the Canadian House of Commons.[9][10][11]
In 2020, Unger's novel Once Removed was released by Turnstone Press.[12][13] The novel, which tells the story of a struggling writer trying to preserve his town's fading history, won the 2021 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book and was a finalist for the 2020 Margaret McWilliams Award.[14][15][16]
In late 2021, Unger released a collection of Daily Bonnet articles called The Best of the Bonnet, also published by Turnstone Press.[17]
In 2023, Unger changed the name of The Daily Bonnet to The Unger Review, while maintaining The Daily Bonnet as a section of the website.[18][19]
Writing style
Unger cites Jonathan Swift, Sinclair Lewis, Armin Wiebe, Billy Wilder, and Miriam Toews among his writing influences.[20] His work has been described as Horatian satire by scholar Nathan Dueck and compared to Armin Wiebe and Arnold Dyck by scholar Robert Zacharias.[21]
