Kristen den Hartog (born 1965) is a Canadian
fiction
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and
memoir
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writer. She is the author of four novels; ''And Me Among Them'', her most recent, was published in 2011.
Den Hartog was born in
Deep River,
Ontario
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.
The 2003 novel ''The Perpetual Ending'' was one of the finalists at the Toronto Book Awards.
Toronto Book Awards - 2004
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Den Hartog lives in Ontario, with homes in Toronto
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and the Ottawa Valley
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.
Bibliography
Fiction
* ''Water Wings''. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2001. (hardcover), (paperback)
* ''The Perpetual Ending''. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003. (paperback)
* ''Origin of Haloes''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2005.
* ''And Me Among Them''. Calgary: Freehand Books, 2011.
Non-fiction
* ''The Occupied Garden: A Family Memoir of War-Torn Holland''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2009.
External links
Random House: Kristen den Hartog
accessed 3 July 2006
accessed 3 February 2010
''Simon and Schuster: Kristen Den Hartog''
accessed 20 December 2016
References
1965 births
Living people
Canadian women novelists
Writers from Ontario
People from Renfrew County
21st-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian women writers
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