Alan Twigg

Alan Twigg, CM has received the Order of Canada, as a prolific journalist, historian, biographer, website-builder, film maker, community-builder and athlete.

When he was accorded an honorary doctorate by Simon Fraser University in 2022, SFU described him as British Columbia's leading man of letters.

In 1987, he started BC Bookworld, a quarterly trade newspaper focused on British Columbia-based books and authors, both fiction and non-fiction.

He also created and wrote a massive reference site called ABCBookWorld, for and about more than 12,000 British Columbia authors, hosted by Simon Fraser University Library (until 2020).

Twigg has written more than 20 books on a wide variety of subjects, from BC literary history to biographies and travel journals.