François Camoin

Born in Nice, France, Camoin moved to the Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1951. He earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Arizona and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1967.[2]

Camoin began his career as a professor at Slippery Rock State College and Denison University. He taught at the University of Utah from 1978 until 2011, when he retired due to illness.[3][4] His students included authors Chuck Rosenthal and Rob Roberge.[5] His work was featured in Mid-American Review,[6] The Missouri Review,[7] the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry,[8] and Quarterly West.[9]

Camoin lived in Salt Lake City with his wife, and sons.[10]

• 1985 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• 1995 Salt Lake City Mayor's Artist Award[11]
• 2004 Utah Humanities Council Grant [12]

• April, May, and So On. What Books Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9823542-4-7.
• Like Love But Not Exactly. University of Missouri Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-8262-0845-3.
• Deadly Virtues. Arrowood Books. 1988. ISBN 978-0-934847-06-3.
• Why Men Are Afraid of Women. University of Georgia Press. January 1985. ISBN 978-0-8203-0722-0.
• Why Men Are Afraid of Women (Flannery O'Connor Award For Short Fiction). University of Georgia Press. March 2013. ISBN 978-0820344621. (Reprint)
• The End of the World Is Los Angeles. University of Missouri Press. April 1982. ISBN 978-0-8262-0365-6.
• Benbow and Paradise. Dutton. 1975. ISBN 978-0-525-06315-5.
• The Revenge Convention in Webster, Middleton and Tourneur. Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg. 1972.