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John Farrow / Trevor Ferguson John Farrow (a.k.a. Trevor Ferguson) is the author of fifteen novels (soon to be sixteen) and four produced plays. His seven literary novels (Trevor Ferguson) — High Water Chants, Onyx John, The Kinkajou, The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater, The Fire Line, The Timekeeper and The River Burns, enjoyed dazzling critical acclaim. The books have run the gamut of wilderness stories among indigent and immigrant men in Canada's north, to wild urban romps through our times. The Timekeeper won the Hugh McLennan Prize for Literature and was produced as a feature film. It has recently been republished in its fifth separate edition in France for mass market distribution throughout the French-speaking world. In France, a commentator in Le Monde in Paris named him as one of the top ten writers in the English language. In his early days, both Books in Canada and the Toronto Star called him Canada's best unknown writer. Among his plays, Long, Long, Short, Long received an audience of over 22,000 during its French run in Montreal, while another, Zarathustra Said Some Things, No? enjoyed a stupendous critical reception Off-Broadway. His crime novels, written under the pseudonym John Farrow, have been published in multiple markets around the world and on every continent not principally populated by penguins. The novels have made bestseller lists in countries as widespread as South Africa, Singapore, France and the Netherlands. Even in Canada. Booklist in New York has praised the Farrow books, which began with City of Ice and Ice Lake, as being the best crime series of our time, while Die Zeit in Germany went one better and called the series the best of all time. River City, which covers over 450 years of Montreal history written as a crime novel, a thousand pages long in its paperback version, continued the author's impressive critical success. The magazine The Walrus wrote that River City "… stands a genre apart from its predecessors. It may constitute a genre apart from most novels ever published … A boldly original creation … Epic." A trilogy in his crime series has been published in New York, comprised of the The Storm Murders, Seven Days Dead, and Perish the Day. The two most recent novels have been published in the UK, the US, and Canada: Ball Park and Roar Back. The next novel (fall, 2020, UK; spring, 2021, US & Canada) is Lady Jail. While not formally educated, Trevor Ferguson was invited to teach Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal, doing so from 1993 as a sessional until his retirement in 2014 as an Assistant Professor. He has also been a Writer in Residence at the University of Alberta, and at Red River College in Winnipeg, and he has served on the Faculty of the Banff Centre for the Arts. Trevor Ferguson lives with his wife in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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