D. Y. Béchard

Deni Yvan Béchard (born British Columbia) is an 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]

Life

Béchard was born to French-Canadian and American parents.^[3] He graduated from Marlboro College in 1997,^[4] from Middlebury College, and from the University of Guelph.^[5] He was French editor at The Adirondack Review from 2002-2004.^[6]

He has lived throughout Canada, and the United States. He currently divides his time between Montreal, Quebec, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Works

• Vandal Love, Doubleday Canada, 2006, ISBN 9780385660518

References

1. ^ http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/news/news/detail.cfm?id=324
2. ^ http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio/christiane/combat2009/jour5.shtml
3. ^ http://www.randomhouse.ca/author/results.pperl?authorid=58796
4. ^ http://www.marlboro.edu/news/pr/2006/10/bechard
5. ^ http://www.marlboro.edu/communities/prospective/profiles/alumni/dy_beacutechard
6. ^ http://www.theadirondackreview.com/interviewbechard.html

External links

• "Disobedient Ancestors", Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Vol. 37, No. 2 & 3 (Spring/Summer 2009)
• "La dérive du continent", Voir, Tristan Malavoy-Racine, 17 Janvier 2008

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