Maxime Raymond Bock

Canadian writer

Maxime Raymond Bock
Born	1981 (age 42–43) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Canadian
Period	2011–present
Notable works	Les noyades secondaires

Maxime Raymond Bock (born 1981) is a Canadian writer from Quebec.^[1] He is most noted for his 2017 short story collection Les noyades secondaires, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.^[2]

His debut short story collection Atavismes was published in 2011, and won the Prix Adrienne-Choquette in 2012.^[3] He followed up with the novellas Rosemont de profil in 2013 and Des lames de pierre in 2015.^[3] Both Atavismes and Des lames de pierre have been published in English translation, as Atavisms (2015)^[4] and Baloney (2016).^[5]

A graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal, he is currently a doctoral student at the Université de Montréal.

References

^ "Le «plateau» Rosemont de Maxime Raymond Bock". La Presse, July 26, 2018.
^ "Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général: les finalistes dévoilés". La Presse, October 3, 2018.
^ ^a ^b "La poésie comme mode de vie, en vain". Le Devoir, April 25, 2015.
^ Pasha Malla, "Too Different and Too Familiar: The Challenge of French-Canadian Literature". The New Yorker, May 26, 2015.
^ "‘Baloney’ by Maxime Raymond Bock". The Winnipeg Review, December 12, 2016.