Canadian novelist
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.[1] The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of Canada Reads Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts .
In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada .[2]
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A Bolt of White Cloth (EN 10H)
Bibliography Approximately 350 short stories published;
Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed — 1968Vault — 1973Krokodile — 1973Sword/Play — 1974The Love Parlour — 1977The Broad Back of the Angel — 1977Cry Evil — 1980Fat Woman — 1980 (nominated for a Governor General's Award )Death Suite — 1981The Magician in Love — 1981The Birth Control King of the Upper Volta — 1982Shakespeare's Dog 1983 Governor General's Award for Fiction )A Bolt of White Cloth — 1984Sing Me No Love Songs, I'll Say You No Prayers — 1984A Good Baby — 1989Daddy Stump — 1991How I Saved the Province — 1989The Happiness of Others — 1991Who Do You Love — 1992The Boy from Moogradi and the Woman with the Map to Kolooltopec — 1993Muffins — 1995Narcissus in the Mirror — 1995Oh, No, I Have Not Seen Molly — 1996Art. Three Fictions in Prose — 1997Oh! Twenty-Seven Stories — 1997Who Goes There — 1998The Fall of Gravity — 2000Painting the Dog: Selected Stories — 2001Balduchi's Who's Who — 2005Hot Poppies — 2005The Beautiful Wife — 2005Hitting the Charts: Selected Stories — 2006The Last Shot: Eleven Stories and a Novella — 2009The April Poems — 2013Swinging Through Dixie — 2016Fantastic Fiction and Peculiar Practices — 2016References External links
1930s 1940s
Ringuet , Thirty Acres Alan Sullivan , Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)G. Herbert Sallans , Little Man (1942)Thomas Head Raddall , The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)Gwethalyn Graham , Earth and High Heaven Hugh MacLennan , Two Solitudes Winifred Bambrick , Continental Revue (1946)Gabrielle Roy , The Tin Flute Hugh MacLennan , The Precipice Philip Child , Mr. Ames Against Time (1949) 1950s
Germaine Guèvremont , The Outlander (1950)Morley Callaghan , The Loved and the Lost (1951)David Walker , The Pillar (1952)David Walker , Digby (1953)Igor Gouzenko , The Fall of a Titan (1954)Lionel Shapiro , The Sixth of June (1955)Adele Wiseman , The Sacrifice (1956)Gabrielle Roy , Street of Riches Colin McDougall , Execution Hugh MacLennan , The Watch That Ends the Night 1960s 1970s
Dave Godfrey , The New Ancestors (1970)Mordecai Richler , St. Urbain's Horseman Robertson Davies , The Manticore Rudy Wiebe , The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)Margaret Laurence , The Diviners Brian Moore , The Great Victorian Collection Marian Engel , Bear Timothy Findley , The Wars Alice Munro , Who Do You Think You Are? Jack Hodgins , The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979) 1980s
George Bowering , Burning Water (1980)Mavis Gallant , Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)Guy Vanderhaeghe , Man Descending Leon Rooke , Shakespeare's Dog Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)Margaret Atwood , The Handmaid's Tale Alice Munro , The Progress of Love M. T. Kelly , A Dream Like Mine (1987)David Adams Richards , Nights Below Station Street Paul Quarrington , Whale Music 1990s
Nino Ricci , Lives of the Saints Rohinton Mistry , Such a Long Journey Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient Carol Shields , The Stone Diaries Rudy Wiebe , A Discovery of Strangers (1994)Greg Hollingshead , The Roaring Girl (1995)Guy Vanderhaeghe , The Englishman's Boy Jane Urquhart , The Underpainter Diane Schoemperlen , Forms of Devotion (1998)Matt Cohen , Elizabeth and After 2000s
Michael Ondaatje , Anil's Ghost Richard B. Wright , Clara Callan Gloria Sawai , A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)Douglas Glover , Elle (2003)Miriam Toews , A Complicated Kindness David Gilmour , A Perfect Night to Go to China Peter Behrens , The Law of Dreams Michael Ondaatje , Divisadero Nino Ricci , The Origin of Species (2008)Kate Pullinger , The Mistress of Nothing (2009) 2010s
Dianne Warren , Cool Water (2010)Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers Linda Spalding , The Purchase (2012)Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries Thomas King , The Back of the Turtle Guy Vanderhaeghe , Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing Joel Thomas Hynes , We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night Sarah Henstra , The Red Word Joan Thomas , Five Wives 2020s
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