Michael Friis Johansen

Michael Friis Johansen has been a professional writer in Newfoundland and Labrador since 1989. He has written for most newspapers, magazines, and TV and radio news programs in the province, as well as for the Canadian Press and Reuters and for news websites, newspapers, and magazines in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Germany, South Korea, Cambodia, and Indonesia. He has conducted writing workshops on various aspects of the art and trade on three different continents and was a writer-in-residence at Trent University, Ontario. Johansen has four fiction and nonfiction books published: Confession in Moscow, 2003; Moon Spotlight Newfoundland and Labrador, 2011; The Boy Who Walked: The Death of Burton Winters and the Politics of Search and Rescue, 2013; and Separation Point, 2026). He has won several journalism awards, including a National Newspaper Award in 1993, and was the inaugural winner of the Lawrence Jackson Writing Award in 2006. He has made North West River, Labrador his home for almost 30 years.