Trevor Ferguson
Trevor Ferguson ( born November 11, 1947 in Seaforth, Huron County, Ontario, Canada ) is a Canadian writer and playwright who lives in Hudson, Quebec. Ferguson is the author of nine novels and four plays. He was referred to by both Books in Canada and the Toronto Star as the best novelist of Canada. Ferguson also used the pseudonym John Farrow.
Life
In Seaforth, Huron County, Ontario, born in 1947, he grew up from the age of three on in Montreal. With about 15 years ago, he moved to the Northwest of Canada, where he was involved as a laborer on railway construction and beyond with writing began while he was working at night in the warehouses.
In his early twenties he traveled and worked throughout Europe and the United States before he returned to Montreal in order there to turn back to the writing. So he drove taxi at night and wrote during the day on a novel, to his first work, High Water Chants, was published in 1977, which designated the writer Dennis Lee as one of the best English-language works. Ferguson's second novel, Onyx John (1985 ) drew the most attention of the Canadian critical acclaim. Leon Rooke called Onyx John even one of the five best novels of the 20th century. Only 16 years later the work was a bestseller in France, where Ferguson is greatly appreciated and often quoted in French translation.
Extraordinary praise also received his third novel, The Kinkajou. The Time Keeper won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for fiction and should be adapted as a film. His ninth novel, The Earth in its devotion, is nearing publication.
City of Ice Ferguson wrote under his pseudonym John Farrow. This novel has sold in 17 countries and the movie rights were sold. The Vancouver Sun called the book the best genre novel. The second volume of this series, Ice Lake, the New York library journal Booklist tempted to assert that this series is one of the best literary crime novel series. The first two novels in this series to date are the only works of Ferguson, which have been translated into German.
2002 Trevor Ferguson's first play, Long, Long, Short, Long, produced by infinitheatre directed by Guy jump in Montreal. The play was the first English-language theater piece that has ever been nominated by the l' Académie québécoise du theater for the Masque award for the best text. In a French-language version occurred in the fall of 2005 to the stage, at the Place des Arts in Montreal, where 20,000 people attended the play. His second play, Beach House, Burnt Sienna, was chosen to be presented during the 20 - year anniversary of the Village Theatre West in Hudson in 2002. This piece was performed in co-production with infinitheatre directed by Guy jump, as well as his third drama, Barnacle Wood, 2004. His fourth play, Zarathustra Said Some Things, No? was premiered by the Bridge Theatre 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, a Invité d' honneur at the Salon des Livres in Montreal and one of the authors of Quebec, who had been invited as a special guest at the Paris Book Fair 1999. In addition, Ferguson was one of the few Canadian writers who were invited to the festival of the Americas 2002. In the same year he worked for the Department of the May Writers' Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts. At times, he teaches creative writing at Concordia University. In addition, he serves as artistic director of Celtic Chorale, an ensemble of Celtic musicians and classical choir.
Ferguson is a resident of Montreal, where he lives with his wife, Lynne.
Work
- High Water Chants - 1977
- Onyx John - 1985
- The Kinkajou - 1989
- The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater - 1993
- The Time Keeper - 1995
- The Fire Line - 1995
- City of Ice - 1999 Eishauch. Translated from English by Friederike Levin, Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-63514-8
- Drift. Translated from English by Friederike Levin, Knaur, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-63513-1
- Long Long Short Long (2002)
- Beach House, Burnt Sienna (2002)
- Barnacle Wood ( 2004)
- Zarathustra Said Some Things, No? (2006, New York, 2009, Montreal)