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{{Short description|Canadian novelist}}
{{infobox writer
|name        = Leon Rooke
|image       = Leon Rooke - Eden Mills Writers Festival - 2013 (DanH-2134) (cropped).jpg
|alt         = Leon Rooke at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2013
|caption     = Rooke at the [[Eden Mills Writers' Festival]] in 2013
|birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1934|09|11}}
|awards      = [[Order of Canada]]
|website     = {{url|http://www.leonrooke.ca/}}
}}
'''Leon Rooke''', [[Order of Canada|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 at Chapel Hill|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.<ref name="artbio">{{cite web| url=http://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/artist-bios/| title=Artist Bios {{!}} Eden Mills Writer's Festival| access-date=2017-12-07| archive-date=2017-12-07| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207193900/http://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/artist-bios/| url-status=dead}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{OCC|11409}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Novels===
*''Fat Woman'' (1980) &mdash; nominated for a [[1980 Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award]]
*''[[Shakespeare's Dog]]'' (1983) &mdash; winner of the [[1983 Governor General's Awards|1983 Governor General's Award for Fiction]]
*''A Good Baby'' (1989)
*''Who Goes There'' (1998)
*''The Fall of Gravity'' (2000)
*''The Beautiful Wife'' (2005)

===Short story collections===
Approximately 350 short stories published.
*''Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed'' (1968)
*''Vault'' (1973)
*''The Love Parlour'' (1977)
*''The Broad Back of the Angel'' (1977)
*''Cry Evil'' (1980)
*''Death Suite'' (1981)
*''The Birth Control King of the Upper Volta'' (1982)
*''Sing Me No Love Songs, I'll Say You No Prayers: Selected Stories'' (1984)
*''A Bolt of White Cloth'' (1984)
*''How I Saved the Province'' (1989)
*''The Happiness of Others'' (1991)
*''Who Do You Love'' (1992)
*''Art. Three Fictions in Prose'' (1997)
*''Oh! Twenty-Seven Stories'' (1997)
*''Painting the Dog: The Best Stories of Leon Rooke'' (2001)
*''Hitting the Charts: Selected Stories'' (2006)
*''The Last Shot: Eleven Stories and a Novella'' (2009)
*''Swinging Through Dixie'' (2016)
*''Fabulous Fictions and Peculiar Practices'', with Tony Calzetta (2016)

===Poetry===
*''Hot Poppies'' (2005)
*''The April Poems'' (2013)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official site|http://www.leonrooke.ca/}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060511211642/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006923 Leon Rooke's] entry in [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]
*[http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/ Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts]

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[[Category:1934 births]]
[[Category:Canadian male novelists]]
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[[Category:Members of the Order of Canada]]
[[Category:Governor General's Award–winning fiction writers]]
[[Category:American emigrants to Canada]]


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