Kildare Dobbs
Kildare Robert Eric DobbsCMOOnt(10 October 1923 – 1 April 2013[1]) was aCanadianshort storyandtravel writer.
Born inMeerut,Uttar Pradesh,India,he was educated inIrelandand later spent 5 years in the Royal Navy during theSecond World War.After the war he worked in the British Colonial Service inTanganyika.Dobbs came to Canada in 1952 and became a teacher, editor for Macmillan of Canada, managing editor ofSaturday Night,and book editor ofThe Toronto Star Weekly.[2]
In 2000, he was awarded theOrder of Ontario.Dobbs lived inTorontowith 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 theOrder of Canadafrom 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 the1962 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
- Reading the Time– 1968
- Canada1964 1965
- The Great Fur Opera– 1970 (Dobson/McClelland and Stewart,ISBN978-0-234-77609-4)
- Pride and Fall: A Novella and Six Stories– 1981 (Clarke, Irwin,ISBN978-0-7720-1368-2)
- Historic Canada– 1984 (Methuen,ISBN978-0-458-98530-2)
- Coastal Canada– 1985
- Anatolian Suite: Travels and Discursions in Turkey– 1989 (Little, Brown & Co.,ISBN978-0-316-18779-4)
- Ribbon of Highway: By Bus Along the Trans-Canada– 1991 (Little, Brown & Co.,ISBN978-0-316-18784-8)
- Smiles and Chukkers & Other Vanities– 1994 (Little, Brown & Co.,ISBN978-0-316-18776-3)
- The Eleventh Hour: Poems for the Third Millennium– 1997 (Mosaic,ISBN978-0-88962-637-9)
- Casablanca: The Poem– 1999 (Ekstasis Editions,ISBN978-1-896860-58-9)
- Running the Rapids:A Writer's Life– 2005 (Dundurn,ISBN978-1-55002-594-1)
- "Casanova in Venice: A Raunchy Rhyme" with nine original wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates- 2010 (Porcupine's Quill,ISBN978-0-88984-332-5)
References
[edit]- ^"Writer Kildare Dobbs dead at 89".National Post.Archived fromthe originalon 19 April 2013.
- ^Martin, Sandra (6 April 2013). "A sharp, satiric observer of human frailty",The Globe and Mail,p. S12.
- ^Dobbs received Order of Canada
- W. H. New, ed.Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
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