Jeffrey Moore

Jeffrey Moore
International Festival of Authors
Born	Montreal
Occupation	Novelist and translator
Language	English and French
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	• University of Toronto  • University of Ottawa
Notable awards	Commonwealth Writers Prize and The Canadian Authors Association Award.
Website
www.jeffreymoore.org

Jeffrey Moore is a Canadian writer, translator and educator currently living in Val-Morin in the Quebec Laurentians. Moore was born in Montreal, and educated at the University of Toronto, BA, the Sorbonne and the University of Ottawa, MA.

Moore’s first novel, Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2000.

Moore’s second novel, The Memory Artists, (published 2004 by Viking, 19 translations) won the Canadian Authors Association Prize for fiction in 2005. It follows Noel Burun, a psychology graduate student with synaesthesia and hypermnesia, as he sets out with three equally eccentric friends to find a wonder-drug cure for his mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s. “Moore explores every facet of memory,” according to Joanne Wilkinson in Booklist, “as both a burden and a blessing--in this delightful and inspired story.” In the New York Times Book Review, Michael J. Agovino described The Memory Artists as “a rich novel, erudite and funny, as much about brain chemistry, the wellness industry and poetry as it is about memory.” Agovino concludes that “The Memory Artists is a pleasure to read; it's strangely uplifting to spend time with these flawed but humane characters.”

In Moore’s third novel, The Extinction Club, (published 2010 by Penguin, 12 translations), Nile Nightingale is on the lam from false charges of child abduction pressed against him by his ex-girlfriend in New Jersey. When he attempts to hole up in an abandoned church in the Laurentians, he encounters the beaten and bloodied Céleste, a fourteen-year-old, animal-rights activist who has been squatting there. Recently orphaned of her last living relative, her grandmother, Céleste turns to Nile for her survival and to continue her battle against poachers ready to hunt the rare North American cougar to extinction. “At its best, The Extinction Club is gripping and incisive,” according to the Globe and Mail review by Darryl Whetter, who also credits the novel with integrating “philosophical inquiries into violence and predation with an undeniably dynamic plot.”