ABOUT

Nigel Beale was born in Toronto, moved, at age five, to Sark in the Channel Islands where his grandfather was doctor on the island and a friend of Gerald Durrell’s, grew up in England, returned to Canada at eleven, studied Public Relations in the first course of its kind at what is now Mount Royal University in Calgary and politics at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, got a Masters Degree in Public Administration at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, set up a successful media-communications firm in Ottawa, wrote a monthly column called ‘On Media’ for Strategy magazine, one of Canada’s leading marketing journals from 1994-1999 and in 2005 decided to devote his life to books and travel. The following year he launched The Biblio File podcast.

To date he has conducted some 650 interviews with authors, editors, publishers, booksellers , book collectors, book history scholars, literary critics, book designers, publicists, literary agents and many other ‘best practitioners’ inside the book trade and out - everyone from writer to reader - all around the world.

Nigel Beale

Bio

Nigel Beale is a freelance writer/broadcaster who specializes in literary journalism. His book reviews and features have appeared in, among other places, The Washington Post, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Canadian Bookseller magazine, LOGOS and Canadian Art magazine. For close to two decades he has produced and hosted his highly regarded podcast on books called The Biblio File for which he has interviewed, among others, Alaa Al Aswany, Alice Notley, Nadeem Aslam, Margaret Atwood, Derek Walcott, John Banville, Harlan Coben, Tim Winton, David Mitchell, Ha Jin, Yann Martel, Amitav Ghosh, Rawi Hage, Junot Diaz, Larry McMurtry, Miriam Toews, Eimear McBride, Tim Parks and Ivan Klima.

He is the founder and editor of LiteraryTourist.org for which he travels to cities around the world, visiting/attending/ participating in and reporting on various literary activities and book-related events.