Bock, Dennis

DENNIS BOCK'S first book of stories, Olympia, won the 1998 Canadian Authors Association Jubilee Award, the Danuta Gleed Award for best first collection of stories by a Canadian author and the British Betty Trask Award. His first novel, The Ash Garden, was a #1 national bestseller and was shortlisted for the prestigious 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Kiriyama Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Caribbean and Canada Region). It won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the Drummer General s Award for Fiction...