writer

My critically acclaimed first novel Kameleon Man was a finalist for the Relit Award for best novel published by a small press, and the Ottawa Book Award. It was also selected for an anthology of great Black Canadian writing. In addition to fiction I also write book reviews and hosted a nationally distributed book review segment on television.

I'm a Montreal-born writer based in Ottawa and I'm hard at work on my second novel which takes place in West Africa.

NEWS: Read a review in the Globe and Mail of Mary Soderstrom's The Violets of Usambara. (June, 2008)

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high fashion, higher stakes, sex, glamour, and great clothes, Stacey Schmidt gets a taste of all of these when he's suddenly propelled from suburban model hell into the garment jungle of today's Toronto. Stacey's part black, part white, and apparently on the fast track to fame, fortune, and all the women he could ever want, though at times it seems as if he's standing still. But does he really want the glitz? Deep down he hungers to make it as a serious photographer, but the gaudy lures and traps of male modelling never cease to tempt him. Kameleon is the hot new jeans-maker, and the guy models in town are clawing at one another to become the company's new face and body. But only one will snatch the crown... if he can survive the sharks that lurk behind the flashing cameras and megawatt smiles. At times hilarious and tart, at times savage and satirical, Kameleon Man launches a startling new voice in fiction, one that struts down the runway with electric panache.

Globe and Mail: "You know you are in good reading territory when you reach that point in a book where you balance on the delicious tension between wanting to see what happens next and wanting to slow down to make it last."

George Elliott Clarke (author of the Governor General's Award-winning book Execution Poems):"Brunhuber's novel is a cinematic tour-de-force of urban grit and urbane wit."

reporter

I started my career at CBC radio, then became a reporter for CTV in Ottawa and Halifax, and Global News in Toronto. I now work as national correspondent for the CBC based in Calgary.

My news stories have been broadcast around the globe, and my articles and columns have appeared in newspapers and magazines in Canada, the U.S. and South Africa.

I have a Bachelor and Master of Journalism from Carleton University.

see me trying to provide some election day analysis during a two-hour live panel... not as easy as I thought!

see a documentary on the challenges of campaigning in Nunavut--a riding that encompasses three time zones--I edited it on the road in one day... quite a challenge (October, 2008).

listen to a CBC radio story on the downtrodden Hazara people of Afghanistan--descendants of Genghis Khan who are still being persecuted. Or see the two-part TV story on the same subject.

read a Globe and Mail article about clay eating in West Africa (July, 2008).

see a CTV National story on the recent suicide bombing in Kabul (July, 2008).

see a CBC TV story on Inuit in the desert (July, 2008)

see a CBC TV story on an innovative solution to the world's food crisis (June, 2008)

listen to a CBC radio doc on the same subject (May, 2008)

read a blurb in the Globe and Mail on "survival tips" for desert travel (June, 2008)

see a CBC TV story on ritual sacrifice in Africa (Sept, 2007)

listen to a CBC radio doc on the tough life of journalists in Sierra Leone (April, 2008)

read an article in the Toronto Star on Canadian soldiers trying to train soldiers in Africa... without bullets

read an article in Karma Magazine on the end of a unique Danish community where drugs are legal and anything goes...

read a column in Femina Magazine on being a single thirty-something

filmmaker

I have traveled to every continent except Antarctica to shoot documentaries and special projects for television and the internet.

brunsEye productions, my television production company, specializes in covering aid projects in developing countries.

My photographs have been published in Canadian and American newspapers and magazines.

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see a trailer for the documentary With Love, From the Skies

contact

kim@kimbrunhuber.com

for literary media inquiries, bookings,
and to order copies of the
Book Club/Teacher's Guide
for Kameleon Man:

Michael Carroll
The Dundurn Group
3 Church St., Suite 500
Toronto, ON
M5E 1M2

mcarroll@dundurn.com

photography credits:

Kim with novel: Ottawa Citizen
Headshot: Crivellari photography
Kim in Africa: Jennifer Hollett
Kim at signing: Danilo Vasquez

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