About Nicholas Ruddock
Nicholas Ruddock was a Canadian writer and physician.
Nicholas Ruddock is a Canadian writer. He is the author of two novels, The Parabolist (DoubleDay 2010) and Night Ambulance (Breakwater 2016), and a collection of short stories, How Loveta Got Her Baby (Breakwater 2014). In 2016, he was shortlisted for the richest story prize in the world, the EFG Short Story Award, for his story "The Phosphorescence."
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. He then set out for Newfoundland and Labrador, interning in St. John's and serving as District Medical Officer in Belleoram, Fortune Bay.
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