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Will Ferguson is an award-winning travel writer and novelist.

Author biography samples Will Ferguson is an award-winning travel writer and novelist whose books span the globe, from Buenos Aires to Belfast, from central Africa to southern Japan, from the Australian Outback to Okinawa. His most recent trip was to the Faroe Islands and Grimsey, off the northern coast of Iceland, where he crossed the Arctic Circle on foot--and was.

His last work of fiction, , 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, Visit him at

Ferguson studied film production and screenwriting at York University in Toronto, graduating with a B.F.A.

in He joined the Japan Exchange Teachers Programme (JET) soon after and spent five years in Asia.

Examples of author biography Will Ferguson is an award-winning travel writer and novelist. His last work of fiction, , won the Scotiabank Giller 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.

He married his wife Terumi in Kumamoto, Japan, in 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, , 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, Visit him at

Ferguson studied film production and screenwriting at York University in Toronto, graduating with a B.F.A. in 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 They now live in Calgary with their two sons.

Will ferguson author biography for book William Stener Ferguson AOE (born October 12, ) is a Canadian travel writer and novelist who won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel (). Biography [ edit ].

After coming back from Japan he experienced a reverse culture shock, which became the basis for his first book Why I Hate Canadians. With his brother, Ian Ferguson, he wrote the bestselling sequel How to be a Canadian. Ferguson details his experiences hitchhiking across Japan in Hokkaido Highway Blues (later retitled Hitching Rides with Buddha), his travels across Canada in Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, and a journey through central Africa in Road Trip Rwanda.

His debut novel, Happiness, was sold into 23 languages around the world. He has written for The New York Times, Esquire UK, and Canadian Geographic magazinemore