Leon Rooke

Leon Rooke, 2013

Leon Rooke CM (born September 11, 1934 in Roanoke Rapids , North Carolina , United States ) is a Canadian writer of American origin.

Life

Born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, Leon Rooke studied at the University of North Carolina from 1955 to 1962, with his studies interrupted by his two years military service in Alaska (1958-1960). Rooke moved to Canada in 1969 , where he now lives in Toronto . In 1983 he won the Governor General's Award for Fiction for his best-known novel, Shakespeare's Dog .

Leon Rooke was a co-founder of the 1989 Eden Mills Writers' Festival . In 2002 he honored The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in the then edition of Canada Reads. In 2007 he was appointed Member of the Order of Canada .

To this day, his works have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch - but not into German.

Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed . 1968
Vault . 1973
Crocodiles . 1973
Sword / Play . 1974
The Love Parlor . 1977
The Broad Back of the Angel . 1977
Cry Evil . 1980
Fat woman . 1980 (nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Books in Canada First Novel 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

personal data
SURNAME	Rooke, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Roanoke Rapids , North Carolina , United States