Kildare Dobbs Explained
Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs (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,)
- Pride and Fall: A Novella and Six Stories – 1981 (Clarke, Irwin,)
- Historic Canada – 1984 (Methuen,)
- Coastal Canada – 1985
- Anatolian Suite: Travels and Discursions in Turkey – 1989 (Little, Brown & Co.,)
- Ribbon of Highway: By Bus Along the Trans-Canada – 1991 (Little, Brown & Co.,)
- Smiles and Chukkers & Other Vanities – 1994 (Little, Brown & Co.,)
- The Eleventh Hour: Poems for the Third Millennium – 1997 (Mosaic,)
- Casablanca: The Poem – 1999 (Ekstasis Editions,)
- Running the Rapids:A Writer's Life – 2005 (Dundurn,)
- "Casanova in Venice: A Raunchy Rhyme" with nine original wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates- 2010 (Porcupine's Quill,)
References
- Web site: Writer Kildare Dobbs dead at 89 . National Post . dead . https://archive.today/20130419083539/http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/04/01/kildare-dobbs-dies-at-the-age-of-89/ . 19 April 2013 .
- Martin, Sandra (6 April 2013). "A sharp, satiric observer of human frailty", The Globe and Mail, p. S12.
- http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/02/06/kildare-dobbs Dobbs received Order of Canada
- W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
