CURRENT BIO
Nicholas Ruddock was born in Ottawa and raised in the Eglinton-Avenue Road area of Toronto. His father was a French professor, his mother a teacher. He attended the University of Toronto Schools and the University of Toronto Medical School, thus tying a long-standing record for immobility (13 years within the same five blocks) in academia. He then set out for Newfoundland and Labrador, interning in St. John’s and serving as District Medical Officer in Belleoram, Fortune Bay. Subsequently, he married the artist Cheryl McNabb Ruddock and they have raised their family of four children in the Yukon Territory, Montreal, and in Guelph, Ontario. He is a family physician.
His writing has been published in The Dalhousie Review, The Antigonish Review, Fiddlehead, Prism International, Grain, sub-Terrain, Event, and Exile. He has won several prizes from those journals in both poetry and fiction. His short story, “How Eunice Got Her Baby” was published in The Journey Prize Anthology in 2007, and the Canadian Film Centre has made a film adaptation of the same story, narrated by Gordon Pinsent, directed by Ana Valine. He is one of three writers featured in Oberon Press’s Coming Attractions, 2009.
The Parabolist, his first novel, was published by Doubleday, in February 2010. It was nominated for the Toronto Book Award 2011.
His writing has been published in The Dalhousie Review, The Antigonish Review, Fiddlehead, Prism International, Grain, sub-Terrain, Event, and Exile. He has won several prizes from those journals in both poetry and fiction. His short story, “How Eunice Got Her Baby” was published in The Journey Prize Anthology in 2007, and the Canadian Film Centre has made a film adaptation of the same story, narrated by Gordon Pinsent, directed by Ana Valine. He is one of three writers featured in Oberon Press’s Coming Attractions, 2009.
The Parabolist, his first novel, was published by Doubleday, in February 2010. It was nominated for the Toronto Book Award 2011.
