Mark Abley

Mark Abley (born 13 May 1955) is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and nonfiction writer.

It was followed by a work of literary travel, Strange Bewildering Time: Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail (2023).

Born in Warwickshire, England, Mark Abley moved to Canada with his family as a small boy, and grew up in Lethbridge, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

He won prizes for his poetry while a student at St John's College, Oxford, and began to write full-time after returning to Canada and moving to Toronto in 1978.

He was a contributing editor of both Maclean's and Saturday Night magazines, and a frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement.

It was short-listed for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal and the Pearson Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize.

In 2009, thanks to the Spanish translation, Abley was awarded the LiberPress Prize for international authors in Girona, Catalonia.

In August 2009 Abley published a children's book about words and their origins, Camp Fossil Eyes.