Deni Yvan Béchard (born British Columbia) is an Canadian-American novelist.
His novel, Vandal Love (2006), won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.[1] It was a finalist for the 2009 Combat des livres, broadcast on Radio-Canada.[2]
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Béchard was born to French-Canadian and American parents.[3] He graduated from Marlboro College in 1997,[4] from Middlebury College, and from the University of Guelph.[5] He was French editor at The Adirondack Review from 2002-2004.[6]
He has lived throughout Canada, and the United States. He currently divides his time between Montreal, Quebec, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.