Maxime Raymond Bock (born 1981) is a

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writer from

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. He is most noted for his 2017 short story collection ''Les noyades secondaires'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the

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at the

2018 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018,"La poésie comme mode de vie, en vain"
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'', 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) and ''Baloney'' (2016)."‘Baloney’ by Maxime Raymond Bock"
''The Winnipeg Review'', December 12, 2016. A graduate of the

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, he is currently a doctoral student at the

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