Michael Ignatieff

Politician

1947 –

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Who is Michael Ignatieff?

Michael Grant Ignatieff, PC is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Toronto.

While living in the United Kingdom from 1978 to 2000, Ignatieff became well known as a television and radio broadcaster and as an editorial columnist for The Observer. His documentary series Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism aired on BBC in 1993, and won a Canadian Gemini Award. His book of the same name, based on the series, won the Gordon Montador Award for Best Canadian Book on Social Issues and the University of Toronto's Lionel Gelber Prize. His memoir, The Russian Album, won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award and the British Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Prize in 1988. His novel, Scar Tissue, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1994. In 2000, he delivered the Massey Lectures, entitled The Rights Revolution, which was released in print later that year.

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Born
May 12, 1947
Toronto
Also known as
  • Iggy
Parents
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Russian Orthodox Church
Ethnicity
  • Russians in Canada
Nationality
  • Canada
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor of Arts, University of Trinity College
    ( - 1969)
  • University of Oxford
  • PhD, Harvard University
    History
    ( - 1976)
  • Master of Arts, King's College, Cambridge
    ( - 1978)
  • Upper Canada College
    (1959 - )
Lived in
  • Toronto

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on July 23, 2013

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