Trevor Ferguson

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Trevor Ferguson

Trevor Ferguson (born November 11, 1947 in Seaforth , Huron County , Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian writer and playwright who lives in Hudson , Québec . Ferguson is the author of nine novels and four plays. He has been named Canada's Best Novelist by both Books in Canada and the Toronto Star . Ferguson uses the pseudonym John Farrow for his crime novels .

Life

Born in Seaforth, Huron County, Ontario in 1947, he grew up in Montreal from the age of three . When he was around 15, he moved to northwest Canada, where he worked as a railroad worker and also began writing while working in the warehouses at night.

In his early twenties he traveled and worked across Europe and the United States before returning to Montreal to return to writing. He drove a taxi at night and wrote a novel by day until his first work, High Water Chants , was published in 1977, which writer Dennis Lee called one of the best English-language works. Ferguson's second novel, Onyx John (1985) attracted the greatest attention from Canadian critics. Leon Rooke even called Onyx John one of the five best novels of the 20th century. It was not until 16 years later that the work in French translation became a bestseller in France, where Ferguson is very much appreciated and often quoted.

His third novel, The Kinkajou , also received exceptional praise . The Timekeeper won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction and is to be adapted as a film. His ninth novel, The Earth in its devotion , is about to be published.

City of Ice wrote Ferguson under his pseudonym John Farrow . This novel was sold in 17 countries and the film rights were also sold. The Vancouver Sun called the book the best genre novel. The second volume in the series, Ice Lake , led the New York library journal Booklist to claim that this series was one of the best literary detective novel series. The first two novels in the series about Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars from Montreal are to date the only works by Ferguson that have been translated into German.

In 2002 Trevor Ferguson's first play, Long, Long, Short, Long , was produced by infinitheater in Montreal and directed by Guy Sprung . The play became the first English-language play ever to be nominated by l'académie québécoise du theater for the Masque award for the best text. In a French-language version, it returned to the stage in autumn 2005, at the Place des Arts in Montreal, where 20,000 people attended the play. His second play, Beach House, Burnt Sienna , was selected to be performed on the 20th anniversary of the Village Theater West in Hudson in 2002. This play was also staged in co-production with the infinitheater, directed by Guy Sprung, as was his third drama, Barnacle Wood , 2004. His fourth play, Zarathustra Said Some Things, No? premiered by the Bridge Theater Company at Studio 54 in New York in April 2006.

In addition, Trevor Ferguson is the former chairman of the Canadian Writers' Association. He was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta , an Invité d'honneur at the Salon des Livres in Montreal and one of the Quebec authors who were invited as a special guest at the 1999 Paris Book Fair . Ferguson was also one of the few Canadian writers invited to the 2002 Festival of the Americas. That same year he worked for the faculty at the May Writers' Studio at the Banff Center for the Arts. At times he teaches creative writing at Concordia University . He is also the artistic director of the Celtic Chorale , an ensemble of Celtic musicians and a classical choir.

Ferguson is based in Montreal, where he lives with his wife Lynne.

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Novels
  • High Water Chants (1977)
  • Onyx John (1985)
  • The Kinkajou (1989)
  • The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater (1993)
    • Life and Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater, in America written differently. Literature from Québec. Ed. Lothar Baier , Pierre Filion. Das Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2000, pp. 49–55
  • The Timekeeper (1995)
  • The Fire Line (1995)
  • The River Burns (2014)
Novels under the pseudonym John Farrow
  • City of Ice (1999)
  • Ice Lake (2001)
  • River City (2011)
  • The Storm Murders (2015)
Plays
  • Long Long Short Long (2002)
  • Beach House, Burnt Sienna (2002)
  • Barnacle Wood (2004)
  • Zarathustra Said Some Things, No? (2006, New York; 2009, Montreal)

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.qwf.org/awards/archive.html
  2. ^ Guy Leap - www.canadiantheatre.com
personal data
SURNAME Ferguson, Trevor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farrow, John; pseudonym
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Seaforth (Ontario) , Huron County , Ontario , Canada