Mark Abley has lived in the Montreal area since 1983. He wrote too many articles and columns for the Montreal Gazette, and has now spent a decade acquiring books for McGill-Queen’s University Press. In 2010-11 he served as writer-in-residence at the Pointe Claire Public Library. Among his books are The Tongues of Earth: New and Selected Poems (2015), Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott (2013), and Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003). One of his Gazette columns was translated into Nepalese. One of his poems was translated into Jèrriais and Esperanto.

Mark Abley
About the Author
- Language
- Year of birth
- Birthplace
- English
- 1955
- Leamington, England

Books written by Mark Abley
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The Organist
by Mark Abley
Published in 2019
- Finalist — The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction in 2019
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Parlez-vous boro?
by Mark Abley
Translated by Dominique Fortier
Published in 2005
- Finalist — QWF Translation Prize in 2006
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The Silver Palace Restaurant
by Mark Abley
Published in 2005
- Finalist — The A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry in 2005
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