Leon Rooke
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Leon Rooke (born 1934) is a Canadian novelist. He was born in North Carolina in the United States, but moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in the 2002 edition of Canada Reads.
Bibliography
- Last One Home Sleeps in the Yellow Bed - 1968
- 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
- How I Saved the Province - 1989
- The Happiness of Others - 1991
- Who Do You Love - 1992
- Oh! Twenty-Seven Stories - 1997
- Who Goes There - 1998
- The Fall of Gravity - 2000
- Painting the Dog - 2001