Con Cú

Con Cú is the pen name of Canadian novelist Ian Thomas Shaw. It was derived from a nickname given to Shaw by a Vietnamese friend whose moving childhood stories about Vietnam and coming to Canada as a "boatperson" inspired his first novel, Soldier, Lily, Peace and Pearls. Shaw was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. For the last 34 years, he has worked as a diplomat and as an international development worker, living in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He currently lives in Aylmer, Quebec (just outside of Ottawa). His second novel, Quill of the Dove, published by Guernica Editions is set against the Lebanese Civil War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Shaw is the founder of Deux Voiliers Publishing, a writers-plus collective dedicated to discovering emerging Canadian novelists. He is the past president of the Ottawa Independent Writers and a member in good standing of the Quebec Writers Federation and The Writers' Union of Canada.

See also his author's website at www.ianthomasshaw.com