Mark Frutkin


Mark Frutkin is a Canadian novelist and poet. He has published ten books of fiction, three books of poetry, as well as two works of non-fiction and a book of essays. In 2022, his novel The Artist and the Assassin won the Silver Medal in the IPPY Awards, in the category of literary fiction. In 2007, his novel, Fabrizio's Return, won the Trillium Prize for Best Book in Ontario and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. In 1988, his novel, Atmospheres Apollinaire, was short-listed for a Governor General's Award and was also short-listed for the Trillium Award, as well as the Ottawa-Carleton Book Award. His works have been shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Awards five times.
Frutkin went to Canada in 1970 as a draft resister during the Vietnam War after obtaining a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola University in Chicago, US. In 1967-68 he studied at Loyola University in Rome, Italy. From 1970-80, he lived in a log cabin with no electricity or running water near Wolf Lake, Quebec. Since 1980, he has lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with his wife, Faith.
As a journalist and critic he has written articles and reviews for The Globe and Mail, Harper's, the Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, Amazon.com/ca, Ottawa Magazine and other publications. His poetry and fiction have been published in numerous Canadian and foreign journals including Canadian Fiction Magazine, Descant, and Prism International.

Works

  • "The Walled Garden" - 2023 TBD
  • "The Artist and the Assassin" - 2021
  • "The Rising Tide" - 2018
  • "Hermit Thrush" - 2016A Message for the Emperor - 2012Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously - 2012Walking Backwards - 2011Erratic North - 2008Fabrizio's Return – 2006 Winner of the 2006 Trillium Award for Best Book in Ontario; Winner of Sunburst Award; Finalist for Commonwealth Award Slow Lightning - 2001The Lion Of Venice -1997In The Time Of The Angry Queen -1993Invading Tibet -1991Atmospheres Apollinaire –1988, re-issued - 1998 The Growing Dawn -1983Iron Mountain - 2001Acts Of Light -1992The Alchemy Of Clouds - 1985