I am an award-winning Canadian author of adult and children’s fiction.
My novels, stories, and nonfiction have been published in Canada, the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and other countries. My first novel, Icefields, received the 1996 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in Canada and the Caribbean. My collection of stories, The Logogryph, was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. In addition to my adult fiction I have published a YA fantasy trilogy, The Perilous Realm, and a picture book for children, Rutherford the Time-traveling Moose.
I live in a place with lots of trees, near Edmonton, Alberta.
Contact
tjwhartonwriter@gmail.com
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Selected quotes about my work:
THE BOOK OF RAIN
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST, ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE
"Audaciously imaginative. . . . I wish more books surprised me as much as this one did."—Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise
"Wondrous."—Eden Robinson, author of the Trickster trilogy
ICEFIELDS:
“Wharton writes with a prose style as clear as glacial waters, tempered with brilliant imagery and lucid dialogue.” CALGARY HERALD
“Icefields is a novel of crystalline beauty from a writer to watch.” TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“Ice, when it is touched, can sear the flesh; in Icefields, it fires the imagination.” PEOPLE MAGAZINE
Icefields: “… careful dialogue, a steady pace and cool, subtle prose.” NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
SALAMANDER:
“Wharton's style is flexible, poetic, inventive, and always lucid." THE GUARDIAN
"A magical tale of books and riddles, castles and countesses." ELLE
"the sort of book every reader hopes to find, earnestly passes along to friends, and returns to in their dreams..." NATIONAL POST
THE LOGOGRYPH
“… a book that sends you spinning off into lovely reveries of longing and desire. It is the kind of book you will recommend to close friends and family with words like: You have to read this! You must read this book!” EDMONTON JOURNAL
“Wharton is one of the few Canadian practitioners of experimental fiction in the vein of Borges and Calvino … Dear Reader, go now and find The Logogryph.” The GLOBE & MAIL
"… a book like no other -- and I mean that in the most serious and complimentary way possible. However you respond to The Logogryph, you will agree that what Wharton has accomplished is the very definition of literary invention." LOS ANGELES TIMES
John Hartman, 'Thomas Wharton Above the Hooker Icefield,' 2018, oil on linen