William Stener Ferguson was born on October 12,1964 and is a Canadian travel writer and novelist who won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel 419.
11 Facts About Will Ferguson
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Will Ferguson is an outspoken critic of the monarchy of Canada, both publicly and in his books, and has previously been quoted in the media during debates on Canada's monarchy.
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Will Ferguson profiled Canadian secessionist and independence movements in his book Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw.
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Will Ferguson then joined the Canadian government funded programs Katimavik and Canada World Youth.
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Will Ferguson joined the JET Programme in the early 1990s, and lived in Kyushu, Japan, for five years teaching English.
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Will Ferguson married his wife, Terumi, in Kumamoto in 1995.
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Will Ferguson was a runner-up for the 1999 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction for I Was a Teenage Katima Victim: A Canadian Odyssey.
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Will Ferguson has won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times: first for Generica in 2002, then for Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw in 2005 and for his travel memoir Beyond Belfast in 2010.
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Will Ferguson served on the jury of the 2015 Hilary Weston Prize for literary nonfiction.
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Will Ferguson is on the board of directors of the Chawkers Foundation, which provides support for literary, artistic, environmental and educational projects.
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Will Ferguson championed Sarah Binks by Paul Hiebert in Canada Reads 2003.