Patrick Farnon

Patrick Farnon: born in Hamilton, Scotland, studied French & Spanish at Glasgow University, is a journalist and translator. He lives in Amsterdam.

JOURNALISM for Havana Times, Jakarta Post, The Economist Intelligence Unit, The Times, Holland Herald, Vision Magazine, etc.

SHORT STORIES in Barcelona Ink, Scotsman Magazine, New Edinburgh Review, Stand Magazine, Scottish Book of Short Stories (Collins), etc.

PUBLISHED: The Scots Way to Santiago de Compostela (2015) a 2,000 km walk along the pilgrim routes of Spain looking for connections between Scotland and Spain in Medieval Times; What McClafferty Did (the Chiang Kai-shek Gold Bond Scam and Other Crazy Stuff) 2019, the comic odyssey of a low-life Scots shape-shifter in mythical Sunny Groodge (Glasgow); Under Dali Skies (Madder than the Wind) 2019, a collection of stories chronicling the extravagant life of the Great Masturbator, together with tales of everyday folk in Dali Land where the author lived for ten years and where the raging hurricane-force wind of the Tramuntana is reputed to drive people mad.