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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
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
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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