Kildare Dobbs

Canadian writer

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

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* 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, 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 & Co., ISBN 978-0-316-18779-4)
* Ribbon of Highway: By Bus Along the Trans-Canada – 1991 (Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 978-0-316-18784-8)
* Smiles and Chukkers & Other Vanities – 1994 (Little, Brown & 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

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1. ^ "Writer Kildare Dobbs dead at 89". National Post. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013.
2. ^ Martin, Sandra (6 April 2013). "A sharp, satiric observer of human frailty", The Globe and Mail, p. S12.
3. ^ Dobbs received Order of Canada

* W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

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Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

1930s|

* Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth (1936)
* Laura Salverson, The Dark Weaver (1937)
* Gwethalyn Graham, Swiss Sonata (1938)
* Franklin D. McDowell, The Champlain Road (1939)

1940s|

* Ringuet, Thirty Acres (1940)
* Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
* G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man (1942)
* Thomas Head Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (1943)
* Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven (1944)
* Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes (1945)
* Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue (1946)
* Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947)
* Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice (1948)
* Philip Child, Mr. Ames Against Time (1949)

1950s|

* Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander (1950)
* Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost (1951)
* David Walker, The Pillar (1952)
* David Walker, Digby (1953)
* Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan (1954)
* Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (1955)
* Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice (1956)
* Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches (1957)
* Colin McDougall, Execution (1958)
* Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night (1959)

1960s|

* Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1960)
* Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961)
* Kildare Dobbs, Running to Paradise (1962)
* Hugh Garner, Hugh Garner's Best Stories (1963)
* Douglas LePan, The Deserter (1964)
* [no award] (1965)
* Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God (1966)
* [no award] (1967)
* Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
* Robert Kroetsch, The Studhorse Man (1969)

1970s|

* Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors (1970)
* Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman (1971)
* Robertson Davies, The Manticore (1972)
* Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
* Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974)
* Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
* Marian Engel, Bear (1976)
* Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977)
* Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
* Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (1979)

1980s|

* George Bowering, Burning Water (1980)
* Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981)
* Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending (1982)
* Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog (1983)
* Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer of Human Souls (1984)
* Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
* Alice Munro, The Progress of Love (1986)
* M. T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine (1987)
* David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street (1988)
* Paul Quarrington, Whale Music (1989)

1990s|

* Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints (1990)
* Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey (1991)
* Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992)
* Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993)
* Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers (1994)
* Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl (1995)
* Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (1996)
* Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (1997)
* Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion (1998)
* Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After (1999)

2000s|

* Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000)
* Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001)
* Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
* Douglas Glover, Elle (2003)
* Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness (2004)
* David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China (2005)
* Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams (2006)
* Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007)
* Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species (2008)
* Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing (2009)

2010s|

* Dianne Warren, Cool Water (2010)
* Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (2011)
* Linda Spalding, The Purchase (2012)
* Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (2013)
* Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle (2014)
* Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)
* Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)
* Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
* Sarah Henstra, The Red Word (2018)
* Joan Thomas, Five Wives (2019)

2020s|

* Michelle Good, Five Little Indians (2020)
* Norma Dunning, Tainna (2021)
* Sheila Heti, Pure Colour (2022)
* Anuja Varghese, Chrysalis (2023)
* Jordan Abel, Empty Spaces (2024)

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