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Dan Yashinsky

Yashinsky    
Dan Yashinsky has been a working storyteller for almost thirty years.  He is the recipient of a Toronto Book award for Tales for an Unknown City, and the author of The Storyteller at Fault.  He founded the Toronto Festival of Storytelling, was one of the founders of the Storytellers School of Toronto and began the 1001 Friday Nights of Storytelling in 1978, a weekly institution in Toronto that continues to this day. 

In 1999 he was the recipient of the Jane Jacobs Prize for making a valued contribution to Toronto’s cultural life.

 


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Last updated: May 1, 2005