Mark Frutkin

Mark Frutkin reads from his novel, Fabrizio's Return

Published by: Knopf Canada

Time of Reading: 5:18

Cleveland-born Mark Frutkin, a Canadian citizen since 1976, has published seven books of fiction and three books of poetry. His 1988 novel, Atmospheres Apollinaire, was short-listed for Canada’s Governor General's Award for fiction and was also short-listed for the Trillium Award (Province of Ontario). Fabrizio's Return won the 2006 Trillium Book Award, the 2006 Sunburst Award, and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book (Canada/Caribbean). Frutkin has also published over 130 book reviews with amazon.com and amazon.ca.

“With enough colour and outrage in the characters to please Boccaccio, and enough love, venom and splendour in the proceedings to please Dante, Frutkin’s Fabrizio’s Return is a grand entertainment that will streak across the reader’s imagination, well, like a comet.”
—Yann Martel

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