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	Rooke, Leon
		Rooke, Leon, short-story writer, novelist, playwright (b at Roanoke Rapids, NC 11 Sept 1934).
		Rooke has been writer-in-residence at 2 US colleges and has taught creative writing at U of Vic and elsewhere in Canada since 1969.
		An energetic and prolific storyteller, Rooke's writing is characterized by inventive language, experimental form, and an extreme range of offbeat characters with distinctive voices.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0006923 (188 words)

	Leon Rooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leon Rooke (born 1934) is a Canadian novelist.
		He was born in North Carolina in the United States, but moved to Canada in 1969.
		Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in the 2002 edition of Canada Reads.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leon_Rooke (162 words)

	World Literature Today: Perseus and the Mirror: Leon Rooke's Imaginary Worlds.(Critical Essay)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The work of Leon Rooke has played a key role in the shift in Canadian fiction from a nationalist paradigm to a postnationalist, multicultural perspective.
		Rooke was born in North Carolina and came to Canada in 1969.
		Over the past quarter century, Leon Rooke's literary achievement has reflected and significantly contributed to the extraordinary emergence of Canadian writing and criticism onto...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:55074271&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (220 words)

	Review - Painting the Dog by Leon Rooke
		Leon Rooke is what Kurt Vonnegut would have turned out like if he had never gone to war.
		In between Rooke explores the dynamics of a marriage in tension.
		Rooke has already earned his spot in the Canlit canon as one of the nation's literary innovators.
	www.danforthreview.com /reviews/fiction/rooke_bestof.htm (845 words)

	Leon Rooke Interview
		Leon Rooke is the author of six novels including The Fall of Gravity, which was chosen by The Globe and Mail as one of 2000's top books.
		Leon Rooke makes his home in Winnipeg and Mexico with his wife Constance.
		ROOKE: Well, one has to be earnest, which is to say, serious.
	www.danforthreview.com /features/interviews/leon_rooke_interview.htm (1066 words)

	Muffins
		`Leon Rooke is one of the best reader / performers in Canada, certainly of his own fiction, and when you hear him perform the work of other writers, you're not so sure he isn't one of the best readers in the country, period.
		Leon Rooke was born at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, 11 September 1934.
		Rooke currently lives in the Annex area of Toronto with his wife Constance, and continues his long-time role as artistic director of the Eden Mills Writers' Festival.
	www.sentex.net /~pql/muffins.html (1203 words)

	Painting the Dog - Thomas Allen Publishers - Thomas Allen & Son Limited
		Leon Rooke is one of Canada's pre-eminent fiction innovators, a master of the short form, and a literary godfather to scores of writers.
		In these beautifully affecting stories, both bittersweet and hilarious, Rooke mines the rich and often turbulent field of domestic life, of relationships between men and women, and of the fragile dislocations of young children.
		LEON ROOKE is the author of seven novels including The Fall of Gravity, which was chosen by The Globe and Mail as one of 2000’s top books.
	www.thomas-allen.com /ThomasAllenPublishers/catalogue/0-919028-44-6.htm (355 words)

	Review \| The Beautiful Wife by Leon Rooke
		A new work by the author Leon Rooke is an event.
		And we meet the author himself, a man who is definitely not Rooke.
		Rooke's style is to festoon the novel with footnotes that give us a plethora of characterizations, advance the plot and provide sometimes hilarious observations and information.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/rooke.html (578 words)

	Writers Festival 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leon Rooke is the author of six novels and over a dozen collections of stories.
		Leon is the artistic director of the Eden Mills Literary Festival and a frequent reviewer for newspapers including The New York Times.
		Leon Rooke will be reading during the 7:00 pm READING SERIES on Tuesday, September 12th in the NAC Studio.
	www.writersfest.com /oldsite/html/LRooke.html (112 words)

	Northwest Passages - Author Profile: Leon Rooke
		Leon Rooke was born in 1934 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
		Over the course of his career, Leon Rooke has been writer-in-residence at a number of Canadian and American universities, including the University of Victoria, Southwest Minnesota State University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Western Ontario.
		Rooke is also the organizer of the Eden Mills Writers Festival, an annual event he founded in 1989.
	www.nwpassages.com /bios/rooke.asp (501 words)

	Columnists
		Rooke is the author of six novels including Shakespeare's Dog,which won the Governor-General's Literary Award in 1981; the founder of the Eden Mills Literary Festival in Eden Mills, Ont.; and a renowned editor, writer-in-residence, and general talent scout and booster of unknown but promising writers.
		"Leon is legendary for the activities he has undertaken for less experienced writers," says Guy Vanderhaeghe, one of three jurors, along with Frances Itani and David Homel, who chose Rooke for this year's award.
		Rooke made such an impression on him that King decided to spend his next sabbatical in Victoria where Rooke was then living with his wife Connie, a professor of English literature at the University of Victoria and the editor of the prestigious literary journal, The Malahat Review.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20020613&dateOffset=&hub=commentColumnists&title=Columnists&cache_key=commentColumnists¤t_row=6&start_row=6&num_rows=1 (1101 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Veteran writer Leon Rooke is the best known of the three writers being discussed in this review, having won the Governor-General’s award for Shakespeare’s Dog in 1981.
		The Fall of Gravity is Rooke’s sixth novel, and it is accompanied by enthusiastic back-cover praise from prominent writers like Russell Banks, Michael Ondaatje, and Austin Clarke.
		Rooke’s novel is a series of often quite humorous set pieces, which allow him to display his stylish, playful prose and gift for outlandish characters, while meditating on the breakdown of the Daggles’ marriage.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/176/5_ivison.html (1058 words)

	The New Quarterly
		Leon, it turned out, had written not one but seven stories, submitted under a variety of comic, and comically transparent, pseudonyms, all with accompanying biographical notes (“Amo el-Amar is a philosopher pamphleteer living in Buffalo.
		Leon wrote to say that we might need to reconsider the tone and scope of the project.
		In the end, we decided to incorporate something that would give a sense of the moral climate in which the issue would be received as well as the one in which it was conceived.
	www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /~newquart/03-09editorial.html (850 words)

	Leon Rooke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leon Rooke was born in rural North Carolina in 1934.
		He Lived in BC for a good many years, moved east in 1987.
		North Carolina Award for Literature, for body of work, 1990.
	www.writersunion.ca /r/rooke_le.htm (64 words)

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		Although it started out as the fulfillment of the personal vision of Governor General's Award winner Leon Rooke, the festival has matured and expanded over the years until it has become a nationally acclaimed and widely respected literary event while still maintaining a small "footprint".
		At that time Leon Rooke and his wife Constance were living in the former stagecoach hotel on the other side of the street.
		Leon invited other writers, including Rohinton Mistry, Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding, to join in the fun; an audience of 350 materialized and the Eden Mills Writers' Festival was born.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3183083&postID=109448586556879303 (368 words)

	CTV.ca - Leon Rooke awarded W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		CALGARY -- Author Leon Rooke is the recipient of the fifth annual W. Mitchell Literary Prize, the Writers' Trust of Canada announced Tuesday.
		The $15,000 prize honouring excellence in writing and mentoring was presented by Orm Mitchell, son of the late author, at Calgary's Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts.
		Rooke is the author of six novels including The Fall of Gravity (2000).
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1024858452682_20267652?hub=CTVNewsAt11&subhub=PrintStory (321 words)

	Hot Poppies
		Rooke writes poetry with the glitter-seeking eye of a magpie, discovering unsettling beauties in his hoard of cultural detritus and post-millennial dread.
		`Rooke's voice is that of a Southern Gothic storyteller (he was born and raised in North Carolina) sucking on a postmodern lozenge.
		A native of North Carolina, Rooke currently lives in the Annex area of Toronto with his wife Constance, and continues his long-time role as artistic director of the Eden Mills Writers' Festival.
	www.sentex.net /~pql/poppies.html (564 words)

	Author Profile - Leon Rooke
		A native of North Carolina who has lived in Canada for many years, Rooke is a frequent reviewer for U.S. newspapers including the New York Times, and is currently the artistic director of the Eden Mills Literary Festival.
		The Fall of Gravity, his latest release, is an irresistible highoctane road novel whose unforgettable characters, extraordinary adventures, and breathtakingly original landscapes are already winning critical acclaim.
		Rooke lives in Winnipeg with his wife Constance.
	bookrapport.com /profiles/leon_rooke.html (240 words)

	The Happiness of Others
		Once folded and eased onto the plate, it's not necessarily the prettiest thing to look at, but it is full of good things, so full in fact that odd bits of onions, red pepper and ham squeeze out.
		`Rooke's vision is Manichaean, melodramatic, exaggerated, and sometimes intentionally cartoonish.
		Leon Rooke doesn't write like any of those precious minimalists or k-mart realists cluttering the literary marketplace these days.
	www.sentex.net /~pql/happines.html (660 words)

	Alibris: Leon Rooke
		Backwoods North Carolinian Leon Rooke has written the all-tome tale of good and evil joined in a battle to the death.
		Leon Rooke's novels are wondrous enough for anyone's taste, but his stories are wondrous strange.
		In the last two decades his literally hundreds of stories have made him into one of the very few writers the rest of us have to read in order to know what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works way out there in "terra incognita mapping...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Rooke,Leon (334 words)

	Canada Reads
		Leon Rooke has published six novels, sixteen short story collections, and numerous anthologies.
		In addition, Leon Rooke won the Canada/Australia Prize, given for overall body of work.
		Megan Follows is best known for her role in the television adaption of Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, where she played the part of Anne Shirley, an imaginative and headstrong young orphan in 1890’s Canada.
	www.cbc.ca /canadareads/cr_2002/panelists.html (846 words)

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		The readers are Keath Fraser, John Metcalf, and Leon Rooke.
		The effect is dizzying, but also oddly poignant.Ó Preceding Fraser on the podium next Tuesday will be John Metcalf and Leon Rooke, both brilliant performers as well as writers with distinctive voices.
		Rooke, who will be reading from his newest collection, Oh!, is a flamboyant reader whose style is, according to Jernigan, Òsomething like what youÕd get if you crossed a backwoods preacher with a madman.
	communications.uwaterloo.ca /Gazette/1998/mar18/newquarterly.doc (606 words)

	Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
		The Happiness of Others brings together the best stories from Leon Rooke's first two books in Canada, The Love Parlour and Cry Evil, and from The Broad back of the Angel, a book published by The Fiction Collective and never distributed in Canada.
		It is a delight to experience anew Rooke's sparkling contribution to the rejuvenation of the short story form.
		"Leon Rooke's novels are wonderous enough for anyone's taste, but his stories are wonderous strange.
	www.nwpassages.com /Profile_book.asp?ISBN=088984125X (291 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Painting the dog: The best stories of Leon Rooke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LEON ROOKE is the irrepressible author of six novels and more than a dozen story collections.
		His 1981 novel Shakespeare’s Dog won the Governor General’s Award and his next novel, A Good Baby, was recently made into a feature film.
		A native of North Carolina, Rooke divides his time between Winnipeg and Mexico with his wife Constance.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0919028446 (324 words)

	Eden Mills Writers' Festival :: the official site
		In Leon Rooke's words, Eden Mills is a place "where new writers are introduced to a large audience and established writers are newly engaged."
		Leon Rooke remains the festival's Artistic Director; his thoughtful advice and contacts in the literary community are extremely useful in guiding author selection and in promoting the event.
		The festival is now in its fourteenth consecutive year and continuity has been well maintained over this time.
	www.edenmillswritersfestival.ca /history.html (841 words)

	Ottawa XPress - Books - Writers Fest
		On October 1, Canadian literary elder statesman Leon Rooke teams up with Michel Faber, a writer of visceral fiction originally from the Netherlands and now resident in Scotland.
		Rooke is the author of more than 20 books.
		Plus, the incomparable and legendary Leon Rooke who's readings are often compared to the equally legendary Dylan Thomas.
	www.ottawaxpress.ca /books/books.aspx?iIDArticle=7296 (1160 words)

	Saskatchewan Festival of Words - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
		Leon Rooke is the author of six novels, including the Governor General's Award winning novel Shakespeare's Dog, The Fall of Gravity, which the Globe and Mail chose as one of the top books of 2000, as well as the short story collection Painting the Dog.
		Leon Rooke has taught or served as writer-in-residence at more than a dozen Canadian and U.S. universities.
		Rooke divides his time between Toronto and Mexico with his wife, Constance.
	www.festivalofwords.com /rooke.htm (144 words)

	Leon Rooke, Blackbird
		Leon Rooke has published twenty-eight books, including novels, short story collections, plays, anthologies, and "oddities," and more than three hundred short stories.
		Rooke has taught at more than a dozen Canadian and U.S. universities.
		He is also currently editing a special issue of The New Quarterly, with the theme, "Bad Men Who Love Jesus." Rooke lives in Winnipeg.
	www.blackbird.vcu.edu /v1n2/fiction/rooke_l (118 words)

	January Magazine \| Reviews of Fiction
		Here Castellani continues the story he began with his debut novel, A Kiss from Maddalena.
		Rooke plays with words, plot and character the way children play with bubbles in the bath.
		Original and provoking, combining angst and awe, theology and therapy, these stories in Michael Guista's Brain Work will mess with your mind.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/fiction.html (669 words)

	World premiere of the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare website!
		Alastair Summerlee, President and Vice-Chancellor for the University of Guelph, then spoke on how technology is redefining the way research is done and information disseminated, followed by Dr. Arthur Bourns, representing the Premier's Research Excellence Awards, who talked about the quality of research going on in Ontario right now.
		This was followed by a rousing reading by author Leon Rooke from his novel Shakespeare's Dog.
		The novel, aptly described by Rooke as "a bit raunchy," is set at the moment of Shakespeare's departure from Stratford to London as narrated by Shakepseare's dog.
	www.canadianshakespeares.ca /launch.cfm (1278 words)

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