Canadian writer
Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs CM OOnt (10 October 1923 – 1 April 2013[1] ) was a Canadian short story and travel writer .
Born in Meerut , Uttar Pradesh , India , he was educated in Ireland and later spent 5 years in the Royal Navy during the Second World War . After the war he worked in the British Colonial Service in Tanganyika . Dobbs came to Canada in 1952 and became a teacher, editor for Macmillan of Canada, managing editor of Saturday Night , and book editor of The Toronto Star Weekly .[2]
In 2000, he was awarded the Order of Ontario . Dobbs lived in Toronto with his wife, Linda Kooluris Dobbs, a noted portrait artist, painter and photographer. In 2013, shortly before his death at age 89 following a period of ill health, Dobbs received the Order of Canada from the Right Honourable David Johnston, at his home in Toronto.[3] He was cremated and his remains interred in the family grave in St Mary's (Church of Ireland) churchyard in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, Ireland.
Bibliography [ edit ] Running to Paradise – 1962 (winner of the 1962 Governor General's Award for Fiction ) Reading the Time – 1968 Canada 1964 1965 The Great Fur Opera – 1970 (Dobson/McClelland and Stewart, ISBN 978-0-234-77609-4 ) Pride and Fall: A Novella and Six Stories – 1981 (Clarke, Irwin, ISBN 978-0-7720-1368-2 ) Historic Canada – 1984 (Methuen, ISBN 978-0-458-98530-2 ) Coastal Canada – 1985 Anatolian Suite: Travels and Discursions in Turkey – 1989 (Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 978-0-316-18779-4 ) Ribbon of Highway: By Bus Along the Trans-Canada – 1991 (Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 978-0-316-18784-8 ) Smiles and Chukkers & Other Vanities – 1994 (Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 978-0-316-18776-3 ) The Eleventh Hour: Poems for the Third Millennium – 1997 (Mosaic, ISBN 978-0-88962-637-9 ) Casablanca: The Poem – 1999 (Ekstasis Editions, ISBN 978-1-896860-58-9 ) Running the Rapids:A Writer's Life – 2005 (Dundurn, ISBN 978-1-55002-594-1 ) "Casanova in Venice: A Raunchy Rhyme" with nine original wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates- 2010 (Porcupine's Quill, ISBN 978-0-88984-332-5 ) References [ edit ] W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
1930s 1940s Ringuet , Thirty Acres (1940) Alan Sullivan , Three Came to Ville Marie (1941) G. Herbert Sallans , Little Man (1942) Thomas Head Raddall , The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943) Gwethalyn Graham , Earth and High Heaven (1944) Hugh MacLennan , Two Solitudes (1945) Winifred Bambrick , Continental Revue (1946) Gabrielle Roy , The Tin Flute (1947) Hugh MacLennan , The Precipice (1948) Philip Child , Mr. Ames Against Time (1949) 1950s Germaine Guèvremont , The Outlander (1950) Morley Callaghan , The Loved and the Lost (1951) David Walker , The Pillar (1952) David Walker , Digby (1953) Igor Gouzenko , The Fall of a Titan (1954) Lionel Shapiro , The Sixth of June (1955) Adele Wiseman , The Sacrifice (1956) Gabrielle Roy , Street of Riches (1957) Colin McDougall , Execution (1958) Hugh MacLennan , The Watch That Ends the Night (1959) 1960s 1970s Dave Godfrey , The New Ancestors (1970) Mordecai Richler , St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) Robertson Davies , The Manticore (1972) Rudy Wiebe , The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) Margaret Laurence , The Diviners (1974) Brian Moore , The Great Victorian Collection (1975) Marian Engel , Bear (1976) Timothy Findley , The Wars (1977) Alice Munro , Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) Jack Hodgins , The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979) 1980s George Bowering , Burning Water (1980) Mavis Gallant , Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981) Guy Vanderhaeghe , Man Descending (1982) Leon Rooke , Shakespeare's Dog (1983) Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls (1984) Margaret Atwood , The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Alice Munro , The Progress of Love (1986) M. T. Kelly , A Dream Like Mine (1987) David Adams Richards , Nights Below Station Street (1988) Paul Quarrington , Whale Music (1989) 1990s Nino Ricci , Lives of the Saints (1990) Rohinton Mistry , Such a Long Journey (1991) Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient (1992) Carol Shields , The Stone Diaries (1993) Rudy Wiebe , A Discovery of Strangers (1994) Greg Hollingshead , The Roaring Girl (1995) Guy Vanderhaeghe , The Englishman's Boy (1996) Jane Urquhart , The Underpainter (1997) Diane Schoemperlen , Forms of Devotion (1998) Matt Cohen , Elizabeth and After (1999) 2000s Michael Ondaatje , Anil's Ghost (2000) Richard B. Wright , Clara Callan (2001) Gloria Sawai , A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002) Douglas Glover , Elle (2003) Miriam Toews , A Complicated Kindness (2004) David Gilmour , A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005) Peter Behrens , The Law of Dreams (2006) Michael Ondaatje , Divisadero (2007) Nino Ricci , The Origin of Species (2008) Kate Pullinger , The Mistress of Nothing (2009) 2010s Dianne Warren , Cool Water (2010) Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers (2011) Linda Spalding , The Purchase (2012) Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries (2013) Thomas King , The Back of the Turtle (2014) Guy Vanderhaeghe , Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015) Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) Joel Thomas Hynes , We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017) Sarah Henstra , The Red Word (2018) Joan Thomas , Five Wives (2019) 2020s
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