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British Columbia
Special Event Kevin Patterson grew up in Manitoba and put himself through medical school by joining the Canadian army. A specialist in internal medicine, he practises in the Arctic and on the coast of British Columbia. His first book, a memoir called The Water in Between, was a Globe and Mail Best Book and an international bestseller. Country of Cold, his debut short fiction collection, won the Rogers Writers? Trust Fiction Prize in 2003, as well as the inaugural City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Set in Rankin Inlet, Consumption is his epic first novel that vividly evokes the modern contradictions of the north. Patterson lives on Salt Spring Island.
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