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0000 0000 8184 3499
https://isni.org/isni/0000000081843499
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David Helwig (Canadees romanschrijver)
David Helwig (Canadian writer)
Helwig, Dave
Helwig, David
Helwig, David G.
Helwig, David Gordon
HELWIG, DAVID GORDON (Mr)
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Dates: |
1938-2018 |
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Language material
text
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author
creator
redactor
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Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (1860-1904)
Harcourt, Joan
Helwig, Maggie (1961-...)
Macklem, Michael
Marshall, Tom (1938-1993)
Martin, Sandra
Oberon Press
Ondaatje, Michael (1943-)
Order of Canada (isAffiliatedWith)
Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) (isAffiliatedWith)
Taylor, Peter
University of Toronto (isAffiliatedWith)
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Titles: |
85 : best Canadian stories
About love : three stories
Atlantic crossings
beloved, The
best Name of silence Poems
Bishop
Blueberry cities
Catchpenny poems
child of someone, The
Clyde
Coming attractions
Complex variables : poems and music
Duet
Eighty-five
essential Tom Marshall, The
Figures in a landscape.
Fourteen stories high;
Glass knight a novel
human elements, The : critical essays
It is always summer
Jennifer
king's evil, The : a novel
Love and money : the politics of culture
Mystery stories
Of desire
Old wars
Poems. Selections
postcard from Rome, A
Seawrack
Seventy two
sign of the gunman., The
Smuggling donkeys
streets of summer., The
This human day
year one, The
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Amicus database, 13 November 2018 (authorized access point (0100B6094): Helwig, David, 1938- ; variant access point: Helwig, David Gordon, 1938- )
Associated Group: Order of Canada naf
Associated Group: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation naf
Associated Group: University of Toronto University of Liverpool naf
Associated Language:
Canada. Governor General. Honours Recipients database, 13 November 2018 (David Helwig, C.M.; Belfast, Prince Edward Island; Member of the Order of Canada, awarded on May 25, 2009, invested on June 18, 2010; An accomplished man of letters, David Helwig has enhanced Canada's cultural and literary landscape for nearly four decades. This award-winning author has contributed a substantial body of work, distinguished by its range, realism and independence. As a poet, his grasp of subject matter and meditative depth place him among the finest in Canada. He is also a well-respected and dedicated peer editor, and was, for many years, the editor of Oberon Press' two signature anthologies, Best Canadian Stories and Coming Attractions. Moreover, he has served on several provincial and national arts juries and was poet laureate for Prince Edward Island; deceased)
Clyde, 2013 t.p. (David Helwig)
Fuller form of personal name: David Gordon
His Figures in a landscape, 1968
His Living here, ©2001 (David Helwig) last printed page (For many years he was the editor of the Oberon Best Canadian Stories anthology. He lives in Belfast, Prince Edward Island, Canada)
Poets Novelists English teachers College teachers Poets laureate
The globe and mail, 29 October 2018, online, viewed 13 November 2018 (David Helwig, prolific literary jack-of-all-trades, died on Oct. 16 of cancer at the age of 80 on Prince Edward Island; born David Gordon Helwig on April 5, 1938, in Toronto; graduated from the University of Toronto in 1960 and studied the at University of Liverpool; taught at Queen's University from 1962 to 1974, worked as a literary manager at CBC Television's drama department from 1974 to 1976, returned to Queen's University part-time in 1976, quitting to write full time in 1980; moved to Montreal in 1992 and to Prince Edward Island in 1996; published close to 50 books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction over a 50-year career and taught himself Russian to translate a book of Chekhov's stories; served as PEI's poet laureate for 2008-2009; named a member of the Order of Canada)
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ACCE
NLN
NTA
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