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.
kildare, dobbs, kildare, robert, eric, dobbs, oont, october, 1923, april, 2013, canadian, short, story, travel, writer, born, meerut, uttar, pradesh, india, educated, ireland, later, spent, years, royal, navy, during, second, world, after, worked, british, col. 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 editRunning 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 amp Co ISBN 978 0 316 18779 4 Ribbon of Highway By Bus Along the Trans Canada 1991 Little Brown amp Co ISBN 978 0 316 18784 8 Smiles and Chukkers amp Other Vanities 1994 Little Brown amp 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 Writer Kildare Dobbs dead at 89 National Post Archived from the original on 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 nbsp This article about a Canadian writer or poet is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Kildare Dobbs amp oldid 1159042863, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
