Peter Dennis Such
Autor de Vanished peoples: The Archaic Dorset & Beothuk people of Newfoundland
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Such, Peter Dennis
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1939-04-29
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Finland
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - Educación
- University of Toronto
- Ocupaciones
- rail worker
miner
TV/film writer
magazine editor
writer-in-residence
academic - Relaciones
- Kline, Joyce (wife)
- Organizaciones
- The Writers' Union of Canada, founding member
Canadian Magazine Publisher’s Association
Writers Development Trust
ACTRA-Screenwriters Guild of Canada. - Biografía breve
Peter Such was born in England and came as a youngster to Canada in 1953. He worked loading freightcars for the Canadian National Railways and in uranium mines, Elliot Lake. He graduated from Victoria College, University of Toronto and was a working class member of "the group that revitalized Canadian Literature in the '70s...no one in Canadian Literature is as eclectic as Peter Such." (Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature) He has written tv series, film documentary, drama, opera librettos, academic works, poetry, short stories, nonfiction and novels. He is a founding member of The Writers' Union of Canada and founding vice-president of CMPA. He is also a founder/publisher of Impulse magazine and a former editor of Books in Canada. He has been a writer-in-residence at U. of T. (Erindale) and instituted the first Can. Lit. courses offered at Ryerson, U. of T., and York University, where he founded the Centre for Distance Learning and Teaching Technology. He is an international lecturer and consultant on Canadian Studies and Internet Learning. He is married to artist Joyce Kline. After many years of working in other genres he is currently completing a new novel, Forevering, while living in Finland, courtesy award from Finnish Academy.
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- Valoración
- 3.0
- ISBNs
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