Leon Rooke
Canadian novelist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Born | (1934-09-11) September 11, 1934 (age 89) |
Notable awards | Order of Canada |
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Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989.[1] 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.[2]