Christopher G. Moore is a Canadian author who has lived in Thailand since 1988. He has written over 30 books and hundreds of essays. His novels have won international awards including the Shamus Award and the German Critics Award. For more information about the author, visit his website: www.cgmoore.com. Christopher is the author of 26 novels, 6 non-fiction books, and 3 anthologies. He is best known by his award-winning Vincent Calvino private eye series and Land of Smiles seriesThe third novel in the series, Zero Hour in Phnom Penh, won the German Critics Award for Crime Fiction (Deutscher Krimi Preis) for best international crime fiction in 2006, the Premier Special Director's Award Black Week (Spain) in 2007. Asia Hand, the second Calvino novel, won the 2011 Shamus Award in the Best Paperback Original category. Reunion, a novella, Finalist Arthur Ellis Award 2013, Best Novella. His novels have been translated into German, Japanese, Chinese, Norwegian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, Italian, Hebrew, Russian and Thai.His latest Vincent Calvino novel, Crackdown--no. 15 in the series--was released on March 22, 2015 (Heaven Lake Press). Four novels in the Calvino series have been published in the USA and UK by Grove/Atlantic. The Vincent Calvino series has also been optioned by FilmNation for a feature film based on Spirit House, the first book in the Calvino series. The Guardian said, "Moore's Vincent Calvino novels, of which this is the 10th, are crisp, atmospheric entertainments set in a noirish Bangkok." The series is the subject of a book by Chad A. Evans titled: Vincent Calvino's World, A Noir Guide to Southeast Asia. Number 16 in the Vincent Calvino series is titled Jumpers and will be released in October 2016.Among his 11 standalone novels are the cult classics Land of Smiles Trilogy, a behind-the-smiles study of his adopted country, Thailand (A Killing Smile, A Bewitching Smile and A Haunting Smile, Heaven Lake Press). Moore is also the editor and a contributor to Bangkok Noir (2011), Phnom Penh Noir (2012), and The Orwell Brigade (2012).The Russian language hardback edition of his comic crime novel titled The Wisdom of Beer was released on August 5, 2014, and Spirit House, the first in the Calvino series in January 2015.His non-fiction book titled Heart Talk explores the Thai social psyche with the use of the word jai (which means heart) in the Thai language. The Vincent Calvino Reader's Guide (2010) contains the Calvino laws from the 11 books in the Calvino series and essays and articles Moore has written about the series. The Cultural Detective (Heaven Lake Press) was released in 2011. Faking It In Bangkok (Heaven Lake Press), a book of Moore's essays was published in 2012. Fear and Loathing in Bangkok (2014) and The Age of Dis-Consent (2015) continues with contemporary essays about Thai politics, culture and the criminal justice system.For nearly six years he also shared weekly blogging duties with Barbara Nadel, Jarad Henry, Quentin Bates, Colin Cotterill and Barbara Nadel at International Crime Authors Reality Check. http://www.internationalcrimeauthors.com/He is married and lives in Bangkok with his wife and seven dogs. He is a frequent traveler in the region, with excursions to Burma, China, India, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.You can find the short version of his life story here: http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/05/express/bio-sketch-the-making-of-a-writer