Deni bechard biography template
Author of Into the Sun, Vandal Love, Cures for Hunger, Of Bonobos and Men. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Nautilus Book Award.
Deni Ellis Béchard, also known as Deni Yvan Béchard, is a Canadian-American novelist..
Deni Ellis Béchard
Canadian American writer
Deni Ellis Béchard, also known as Deni Yvan Béchard, is a Canadian-American novelist.
His novel, Vandal Love (2006), won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.[1] It was a finalist for the 2009 Combat des livres, broadcast on Radio-Canada.[2] His second book, Cures for Hunger, was a memoir about growing up with his father who robbed banks, and was an Amazon.ca pick for one of the best memoirs of 2012.
He has written a book of journalism, Of Bonobos and Men: a Journey to the Heart of the Congo, which won the 2015 Nautilus Book Award for Investigative Journalism as well as the Nautilus Book Award Grand Prize. He coauthored Kuei: a Conversation on Racism, book about racism against First Nations People in Canada, written in epistolary form with the Innu poet Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine.
His novel Into the Sun, about the Civilian Surge in Afghanistan, won the 2017 Midwest Book Award for L
