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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170905224555/https://www.thestar.com/photoplayer/1280193">Giller guests pick their favourite books</a></p><p itemprop="articleBody">The crowd favourite and a confident showman, Ferguson also thanked his Japanese wife, Terumi, his mother and siblings for their support, and Toronto doctor-turned-novelist <a onclick="theStarLinkClick(event, this)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170905224555/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/1168563--vincent-lam-s-new-book-takes-us-on-a-tour-of-asia-that-is-blood-curdling">Vincent Lam</a>, a previous Giller winner, “for endorsing a very unlikely book.”</p><p itemprop="articleBody">Standing on the Ritz-Carlton ballroom stage in front of 500 writers, publishers, politicians and arts supporters in all their finery and a full CBC-TV crew that was recording the proceedings for later broadcast Tuesday night, Ferguson dug into his sporran and withdrew a flask, then invited the crowd to “raise a toast for the written word.”</p></div><div class="show-for-small-only alpha__big-box " data-reactid="154"><div class="article-continued" data-reactid="155"><div class="article-continued__heading" data-reactid="156">Article Continued Below</div></div><div class="alpha__big-box__body" data-reactid="157"><div class="big-box" data-reactid="158"><!-- react-empty: 159 --></div></div></div><div data-reactid="160"><p itemprop="articleBody">Ferguson, a three-time <a onclick="theStarLinkClick(event, this)" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170905224555/http://leacock.ca/">Leacock Medal</a> winner for humour and a successful writer of travel memoirs, said after the presentation that he had not started out to write a dark novel.</p><p itemprop="articleBody">“It began with the thought that maybe there really is a Nigerian prince somewhere who can’t gain his freedom for lack of funds . . . but when I started writing it, the story began to turn dark, all by itself.”</p><p itemprop="articleBody">Amid the flash and glamour drummed up with increasing ferocity by the CBC and Giller founder, businessman/philanthropist Jack Rabinovitch, Ferguson seemed perfectly at home.</p></div><!-- react-empty: 161 --><div id="fsk_splitbox" data-reactid="162"></div><div data-reactid="163"><p itemprop="articleBody">“Look, I love that in Canada literature gets the red carpet treatment,” he grinned.</p><p itemprop="articleBody">His next book will not follow the sombre fiction trail, he added.</p><p itemprop="articleBody">“It’s a travel book about Rwanda. I try to switch between fiction and travel because each discipline uses different parts of the brain.”</p><p itemprop="articleBody">Ferguson’s book was selected over Alix Ohlin’s sophomore novel, <em>Inside</em>, an exploration of the hidden dangers in human relationships; Nancy Richler’s <em>The Imposter Bride</em>, about a woman’s search for the mother who may or may not have abandoned her; Kim Thúy’s 2011 French-language Governor General’s Literary Award-winning memoir, <em>Ru</em>; and Russell Wangersky’s collection of death-dealing short stories, <em>Whirl Away</em>.</p><p itemprop="articleBody">This year’s Giller jury comprised American satirist Gary Shteyngart, Irish author Roddy Doyle and Canadian publisher and writer Anna Porter. 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