Anthony Bidulka

Anthony Bidulka has enjoyed time well-spent and misspent in the worlds of academia, accounting, footwear, food services, and farming. In 1999, Anthony Bidulka, BA, BEd, BComm, CA left a decade-long career as a chartered accountant to pursue writing.

In 2003, Quill & Quire described Amuse Bouche: A Russell Quant Mystery as “…an effervescent first novel that is much like the tasty French hors d’oeuvres from which it takes its name,” earning Bidulka a nomination for the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award.

In June 2005, Bidulka’s follow up novel, Flight of Aquavit: A Russell Quant Mystery, was awarded the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men’s Mystery. Bidulka was the first Canadian to win in that category.

With sharp writing, descriptive flair and wry humour, Bidulka’s mystery series tells the story of the first, and perhaps only, half-Ukrainian, half-Irish, gay, ex-farmboy, ex-cop, Canadian, Saskatchewan, prairie, world-travelling private detective being written about today anywhere.

New York’s Mystery Scene Magazine recently said: “Quant makes for a riveting hero…the kind of friend you want to have—unless you’re a killer.”

Anthony has toured extensively in both Canada and the United States. A great believer in community involvement, he has sat on many boards and committees including those of Persephone Theatre, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, AIDS Saskatoon, the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, the International Association of Crime Writers, and Ubuntu Purse. Anthony was the MC of the 2008 Bloody Words Mystery Writer’s conference gala and is the current vice president of the CWC's Prairies chapter.

An avid traveller, reader and party-giver, Anthony lives in Saskatoon where he is at work on his next novel.

Selected publications:
The Russell Quant Mystery series:
Amuse Bouche, Insomniac Press, 2003
Flight of Aquavit, Insomniac Press, 2004
Tapas on the Ramblas, Insomniac Press, 2005
Stain of the Berry, Insomniac Press, 2006
Sundowner Ubuntu, Insomniac Press, 2007
 

Awards:
Nominated, 2003 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel Finalist for Amuse Bouche
Nominated, 2004 ReLit Award for Amuse Bouche
Winner, 2004 Lambda Literary Award, Best Gay Men’s Mystery for Flight of Aquavit
Nominated, 2004 Saskatchewan Book Award – Saskatoon Book of the Year for Flight of Aquavit
Nominated, 2005 Saskatchewan Book Award Finalist – Fiction for Tapas on the Ramblas
Nominated, 2007 Saskatchewan Book Award Finalist – Readers Choice Award for Stain of the Berry
 

Website:
www.anthonybidulka.com

E-mail:
anthony@anthonybidulka.com