1. Andrew Unger was born on November 8,1979 and is a Canadian novelist and satirist.
14 Facts About Andrew Unger
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Andrew Unger is the author of the satirical news website The Unger Review, as well as the novel Once Removed and the collection The Best of the Bonnet.
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Since 2010, Unger has been a contributor to numerous publications including The Globe and Mail, Geez, CBC.
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In 2016 Andrew Unger founded the Mennonite satirical news website The Daily Bonnet and, along with his wife Erin Koop Andrew Unger, the non-satirical website Mennotoba in 2017.
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Since 2016, Andrew Unger has written more than two thousand Daily Bonnet articles.
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In late 2021, Andrew Unger released a collection of Daily Bonnet articles called The Best of the Bonnet, published by Turnstone Press.
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In 2023, Andrew Unger changed the name of The Daily Bonnet to The Andrew Unger Review, while maintaining The Daily Bonnet as a section of the website.
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Andrew Unger cites Jonathan Swift, Sinclair Lewis, Armin Wiebe, Billy Wilder, and Miriam Toews among his writing influences.
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Andrew Unger's work has been described as Horatian satire by scholar Nathan Dueck and compared to Armin Wiebe and Arnold Dyck by scholar Robert Zacharias.
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The son of a Mennonite minister father and book-keeper mother, Andrew Unger was born in Winnipeg in 1979 and lived in Steinbach, Brandon and Calgary as a child before returning to Steinbach as an adult.
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Andrew Unger attended Providence University College in the late 1990s and holds degrees from the University of Manitoba.
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Andrew Unger has taught English Language Arts, including satire and creative writing, at Steinbach Regional Secondary School since 2005.
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In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Andrew Unger successfully advocated for the Manitoba government to create vaccine stickers in the Mennonite dialect of Plautdietsch.
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In 2024, Andrew Unger initiated a fundraiser to place an historic plaque in front of author Miriam Toews's former home in Steinbach.