Dennis Bock
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Dennis Bock (born August 28, 1964, Belleville, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Bock studied English and philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, and took one year off during that time to live in Spain.
After spending years working on his craft, acting as fiction editor for the literary journal Blood & Aphorisms and doing stints at writers' colonies like Yaddo, he published his first book, the critically acclaimed short story collection Olympia, in 1998, for which he won the Danuta Gleed award. His first novel, The Ash Garden, about various kinds of fallout from the Hiroshima bomb, was published in 2001, and was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Bock's second novel, The Communist's Daughter, is a retelling of the final years in the life of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune.
Bock lives in Toronto with his wife, Andrea, and their two sons.
[edit] Works
- Olympia (1998)
- The Ash Garden (2001)
- The Communist's Daughter (2006)