Christopher
G. Moore
Fiction, Thai language
Canadian
Christopher G. Moore is the creator of the award-winning Vincent Calvino
crime fiction series and the author of the Land of Smiles Trilogy.
In his
former life, he studied at Oxford University and taught law at the
University of British Columbia. He wrote radio plays for the CBC and
NHK before his first novel was published in New York in 1985, when
he promptly left his tenured academic job for an uncertain writing
career, leaving his colleagues thinking he was not quite right in
the head.
His journey
from Canada to Thailand, his adopted home, included some time in Japan
in the early 1980s and four years in New York in the late 1980s. In
1988, he came to Thailand to harvest materials to write a book. The
visit was meant to be temporary. Two decades and 22 novels later,
he is still in Bangkok and far from having exhausted the rich Southeast
Asian literary materials. His novels have so far appeared in a dozen
languages.
For more
information about the author and his books, visit his website: www.cgmoore.com.
He also blogs weekly at International Crime Authors: Reality Check:
www.internationalcrimeauthors.com.
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