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April 2012

Monday April 30, 2012

M.A.C. Farrant at Banff Centre in 2012

M.A.C. Farrant

Photo: Barry Peterson

Born in Sydney, Australia, and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, M.A.C. Farrant is the acclaimed author of nine previous collections of satirical and humorous short fiction, and two works of non-fiction. Her writing has been widely anthologized in North America and has been dramatized for television; Farrant is also a frequent contributor to leading magazines such as Adbusters and Geist. In conjunction with the Arts Club Theatre of Vancouver she has adapted her 2004 memoir My Turquoise Years into a stage play..

Farrant has taught fiction workshops in Canada and Australia. She was a visiting writer-in-residence at Macquarie University in Sydney. A full-time writer currently residing in North Saanich, B.C., she has also taught part-time at the creative writing department in the University of Victoria and reviews books for the Vancouver Sun and the Globe & Mail.

Farrant’s work is infused with acerbic wit and iconoclastic innovation. As the Globe & Mail has noted, “Farrant is better at startling us with unnerving, often misanthropic visions of everyday life than perhaps any other Canadian writer”.

BC Bookworld has called her “Canada’s most acerbic and intelligent humourist.”

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QUOTES OF NOTE

"Farrant has a lightness of touch, and her writing is not too charmed by its own cleverness; she achieves something quite tricky there. With an eye to the world that is somewhat aslant, her stories cannot nestle neatly into the forms usually associated with realism, and the formats she chooses are refreshing: at her best, it feels as if she is getting at the heart of something that takes other writers much longer to lead us to." — Canadian Literature

“ … a brave iconoclast.”
— Publishers Weekly

“Farrant, it appears, will offer satire, surrealism and silliness to guide us through the rogue waves of reality toward a shore called Meaning. The stories are full of changing ideas and scenarios, and contain worlds. The reader might want to pick at these stories slowly, however, as they are extremely rich.”
— Globe & Mail

“M.A.C. Farrant is a trapeze artist of the imagination, swinging over the existential void.”
— BC Bookworld

QUOTES OF NOTE

“A brave iconoclast …”

— Publishers Weekly

“ The Breakdown So Far is a fantastic and whimsical challenge to the intellectual doom of everyday life. [Farrant] is an elegant and spare writer, whipping up a foam of visionary ideas with a few short strokes of language.”

— Ottawa Xpress

“ The Breakdown So Far is challenging, unnerving, unforgettable and very unlikely. If, as Nabokov advises, the monster of grim common sense must be ‘shot dead,’ then Farrant is, indeed, a crack shot.”

— Globe and Mail

“Farrant is a master of the literary equivalent of a waking dream, creating subtle insurrections disguised as prose. The Breakdown So Far, her latest collection of absurd short stories, is a minivan crammed full of weird.”

— Toronto Star

“[Farrant] manages to make these stories feel very whole and rounded, despite their brevity—no small task.”

— Herizons

QUOTES OF NOTE

Farrant is better at startling us with unnerving, often misanthropic, visions of everyday life than perhaps any other Canadian writer.
— Globe & Mail

M.A.C. Farrant is a wonderful writer of domestic comedy."
— Bill Richardson, CBC

A brave iconoclast.
— Publishers Weekly

“Quixotically brilliant…”
— January Magazine