for 419 (2012). The novel went on to win the 2013 Libris Award from the Canadian Booksellers Association for Fiction Book of the Year. He also served on the jury of the 2015 Hilary Weston Prize for literary nonfiction. In 2021, he won the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Novel for The Finder. Ferguson is on the board of directors of the Chawkers Foundation, which provides support for literary, artistic, environmental and educational projects. In 2016, he received an honorary degree in English from Mount Royal University. Other activities Ferguson championed Sarah Binks by Paul Hiebert in Canada Reads 2003. Bibliography Why I Hate Canadians (1997) I Was a Teenage Katima-Victim! (1998) Hokkaido Highway Blues (1998), republished in 2005 as Hitching Rides with Buddha The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan (1998) Bastards and Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders, Past and Present (1999) Canadian History for Dummies (2000, revised 2005) Generica (2001), winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, later republished as Happiness™ How to Be a Canadian (2001), cowritten with Ian Ferguson Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada (2004), winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour (editor) (2006) Spanish Fly (2007) published in the UK as Hustle Beyond Belfast: A 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet (2009), winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour Coal Dust Kisses: A Christmas Memoir (2010) Canadian Pie (2011) 419 (2012), winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey into the New Heart of Africa (2015) The Shoe on the Roof (2017) The Finder (2020), winner of the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Novel References External links 1964 births Canadian memoirists Canadian male novelists Writers from Alberta People from Mackenzie County Living people Canadian republicans Stephen Leacock Award winners Canadian expatriates in Japan York University alumni 21st-century Canadian novelists Canadian travel writers Canadian male essayists 21st-century Canadian essayists 21st-century Canadian male writers 21st-century memoirists