Awards and Honours
In 1995, Wachtel's program Writers & Company, won CBC's Award for Programming Excellence for the best national weekly. According to the show's website, the judges said that if they were to "choose one hour of radio to take to a desert island, it would be Writers & Company." Writers & Company again won the CBC excellence award in 2003. In 2002, Wachtel won the Jack Award for the promotion of Canadian books and authors.
In 2011, Writers & Company won a Silver Prize at the New York Festivals for World's Best Radio Programs.
Wachtel has been awarded eight honorary degrees, including a Doctor of Laws from Concordia University in Montreal (2010), a Doctor of Letters from McGill University in Montreal (2009), a Doctor of Laws, from Dalhousie University in Halifax (2007), and the Doctor of Letters (D. Litt.) from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. (2007); Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax (2002); Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver (2001); Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta (2000); St. Thomas University, Fredericton (1999). In 2005, Wachtel was named a member of the Order of Canada.
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