Leon Rooke

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Leon Rooke, CM (born September 11, 1934) is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989. In 2002, Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of Canada Reads. Rooke's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.[1]

Bibliography

  • Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed 1968
  • Vault 1973
  • Krokodile 1973
  • Sword/Play 1974
  • The Love Parlour 1977
  • The Broad Back of the Angel 1977
  • Cry Evil 1980
  • Fat Woman 1980 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • Death Suite 1981
  • The Magician in Love 1981
  • The Birth Control King of the Upper Volta 1982
  • Shakespeare's Dog 1983 (winner of the 1983 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
  • A Bolt of White Cloth 1984
  • Sing Me No Love Songs, I'll Say You No Prayers 1984
  • A Good Baby 1989
  • Daddy Stump 1991
  • How I Saved the Province 1989
  • The Happiness of Others 1991
  • Who Do You Love 1992
  • The Boy from Moogradi and the Woman with the Map to Kolooltopec 1993
  • Muffins 1995
  • Narcissus in the Mirror 1995
  • Oh, No, I Have Not Seen Molly 1996
  • Art. Three Fictions in Prose 1997
  • Oh! Twenty-Seven Stories 1997
  • Who Goes There 1998
  • The Fall of Gravity 2000
  • Painting the Dog 2001
  • Balduchi's Who's Who 2005
  • Hot Poppies 2005
  • The Beautiful Wife 2005
  • Hitting the Charts: Selected Stories 2006
  • The Last Shot: Selected Stories 2009
  • The April Poems 2013

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