Maxime Raymond Bock (born 1981) is a Canadian writer from Quebec."Le «plateau» Rosemont de Maxime Raymond Bock". La Presse, July 26, 2018. 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."Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général: les finalistes dévoilés". La Presse, October 3, 2018.
His debut short story collection Atavismes was published in 2011, and won the Prix Adrienne-Choquette in 2012."La poésie comme mode de vie, en vain". Le Devoir, April 25, 2015. He followed up with the novellas Rosemont de profil in 2013 and Des lames de pierre in 2015. Both Atavismes and Des lames de pierre have been published in English translation, as Atavisms (2015)Pasha Malla, "Too Different and Too Familiar: The Challenge of French-Canadian Literature". The New Yorker, May 26, 2015. and Baloney (2016)."‘Baloney’ by Maxime Raymond Bock". The Winnipeg Review, December 12, 2016.
A graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal, he is currently a doctoral student at the Université de Montréal.
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