Garry Marchant

Garry Marchant, a Canadian writer, worked as a reporter on several Canadian weeklies before moving to Rio de Janeiro, where he edited the Brazil Herald, the country's only English language daily. Later, he spent several years in Hong Kong working as a reporter for the South China Morning Post and an editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review before returning to Canada where he started freelance writing more than 20 years ago.

He returned to Hong Kong where he continued freelancing and traveled extensively around the region for ten years. He has visited more than 230 countries, and written about most of them. Two years ago he relocated to Paris where he continues to freelance, returning to Asia several times a year. He contributes to major publications in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan.

His work has appeared in anthologies such as Away From Home, Canadian Writers in Exotic Places, 1985, Our American Cousins, 1987, That Reminds Me... Canadian authors relive their most embarrassing moments, 1990, Traveler's Tales Hong Kong, 1996 and Voyages, the Romance of Cruising, 1999, as well as in numerous guide books.

He has received numerous international awards for writing and photography and in 1993 won the Pacific Area Travel Association Journalist Award and in 2001 he won the "Best ASEAN Travel Article" catergory of the ASEANTA Awards for Excellence.

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