Deni bechard biography sampler

          André Béchard was once a bank robber—and so Deni's imagination is set on fire.!

          André Béchard was once a bank robber-and so Deni's imagination is set on fire.

        1. Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard worships his father, believing that he can do no wrong.
        2. André Béchard was once a bank robber—and so Deni's imagination is set on fire.
        3. Deni Y. Béchard was born in British Columbia to French Canadian and American parents, and grew up in both Canada and the United States.
        4. The award-winning author blends fiction and memoir in this “captivating, careening, thrilling, and magical” novel of neocolonial corruption in the Congo.

          5. Deni Ellis Béchard

          Canadian American writer

          Deni Ellis Béchard, also known as Deni Yvan Béchard, is a Canadian-American novelist.

          His novel, Vandal Love (), won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.[1] It was a finalist for the 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 pick for one of the best memoirs of He has written a book of journalism, Of Bonobos and Men: a Journey to the Heart of the Congo, which won the 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 Midwest Book Award for Literary Fiction and has been described b