Paul Quarrington

…is a musician, acclaimed non-fiction writer and novelist, and an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker. His most recent novel The Ravine published 2008 was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; his previous novel Galveston was short-listed for the Giller.  Quarrington won the Stephen Leacock Medal for King Leary, a title that also won the 2008 Canada Reads competition. Whale Music won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and was one of several of his novels adapted as a feature film. His non-fiction writing includes books on some of his favourite pastimes such as fishing, hockey and music; his next non-fiction book about his life in music will be published by Greystone in 2009. He regularly contributes book reviews, travel columns and journalism to Canada’s national newspapers and magazines. His screenplays and story editing have won many awards, most recently the CFPTA Indie Award for Comedy for the series Moose TV, and he is in high demand as a story editor for feature films and television in Canada and the US. Paul’s filmmaking talents as writer / director are evident in his BookShorts short film, Pavane, which he adapted from The Ravine; it was featured in the Moving Stories Film Festival, in festivals in the US, and broadcast on Bravo!FACT Presents and CBC Reflections. As a musician, he currently plays in the band PorkBelly Futures; their self-titled second CD was released last year; the first CD Way Past Midnight was extremely well received. Paul has also returned to the performance circuit as solo vocalist on guitar. Paul lives and works in Toronto, where he teaches writing at Humber College and University of Toronto, and sits on the Board of Directors for the Fringe Theatre Festival. Quarrington is also an (extremely) amateur magician and a would-be mariner.

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