Safarik, Norman Safarik and Allan

NORMAN SAFARIK has worked in the fish industry his entire life. He followed his father in this business and has been succeeded by his son. For 50 years, he knew every fisherman and wholesaler in British Columbia, and along the west coast of the United States. His reach extended to New York City, Montreal, Japan, and Cuba. Norman's son, poet and editor ALLAN SAFARIK, was born and raised in B.C. Allan's works include All Night Highway (1997), How I Know The Sky Is a River (1999), and Bird Writer's Handbook (2003). In 2003, he won the John V. Hicks Manuscript Award for Literary Non-Fiction and in 2005 he won the Saskatchewan Book Award for poetry for When Light Falls from the Sun. Allan Safarik lives in Dundurn, Saskatchewan.;