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Will Ferguson

Born

in Fort Vermilion, Alberta, Canada

October 12, 1964

Website

http://www.willferguson.ca/

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Will Ferguson is an award-winning travel writer and novelist. His last work of fiction, 419, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He has won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour a record-tying three times and has been nominated for both the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His new novel, The Shoe on the Roof, will be released October 17, 2017. Visit him at WillFerguson.ca

Ferguson studied film production and screenwriting at York University in Toronto, graduating with a B.F.A. in 1990. He joined the Japan Exchange Teachers Programme (JET) soon after and spent five years in Asia. He married his wife Terumi in Kumamoto, Japan, in 1995. They now live in Calgary with their two sons. After coming back from Japan he experWill Ferguson is an award-winning travel writer and novelist. His last work of fiction, 419, won the Scotiab

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Books by Will Ferguson

419
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3.62 avg rating — 12,713 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions

Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
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3.98 avg rating — 5,921 ratings — published 1998 — 24 editions

Happiness
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3.78 avg rating — 4,003 ratings — published 2001 — 51 editions

Sunshine Sketches Of A Small Town
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3.72 avg rating — 3,748 ratings — published 1912 — 209 editions

How to Be a Canadian
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3.64 avg rating — 2,087 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada
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3.75 avg rating — 1,366 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions

The Shoe on the Roof
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3.48 avg rating — 1,388 ratings — 8 editions

Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey Into the New Heart of Africa
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4.22 avg rating — 864 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions

Why I Hate Cana

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Will Ferguson BFA, BA (Hon.)

We have inherited an easy life in Canada. A life of calm. It is freedom of a lazy sort, a freedom so pervasive we barely notice it, and one that we claim by virtue of our citizenship. But it is also worth remembering that people – in the words of Bulgarian-born Canadian philanthropist Ignat Kaneff – ‘crawl across minefields to get here.

Will Ferguson of Calgary is a best-selling author whose poetic work describes historic, human and geographic landscapes, expressing the shifting naturlig eller utan tillsats of humanity in genres as diverse as the novel, essay, travelogue and memoir, and in his reflections on Canadian identity. His work has contributed to greater understanding and awareness of contemporary Canada, as well as the nation’s rich history, among Canadian and international audiences alike.

William Stener Ferguson was born on October 9, 1964, in the former fur-trading post of Fort Vermilion. His father, John Ferguson, was a schoolteacher who later taught at