Kildare Dobbs (1923–2013)
Auteur van The Great Fur Opera : Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1970
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- Officiële naam
- Dobbs, Kildare Robert Eric
- Geboortedatum
- 1923-10-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2013-04-01
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Canada
- Geboorteplaats
- Meerut, India
- Plaats van overlijden
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- teacher
editor
travel writer
memoirist
literary critic
poet - Organisaties
- Tamarack Review (Co-Founder)
Royal Navy (WWII)
Toronto Star Weekly - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Order of Ontario (2000)
Order of Canada (2013)
Governor General’s Literary Award (1962) - Korte biografie
- Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs (1923-2013) 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 Tanganyka. 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.
In 2000, he was awarded the Order of Ontario. Prior to his death Dobbs lived in Toronto, Ontario with his wife Linda Kooluris Dobbs, a noted portrait artist, painter and photographer.
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The facts (there are many, in between the asides, the digressions and back-handed compliments) are essentially true ~ tales of grim hardships, European disagreements between the French and British, rivalries amongst bands of natives all eager to sell furs or trade for the HBC trade goods over the 300-year history of the oldest merchandising corporation in the world. A completely irreverent history book: the backstairs view, rather than the aristocratic board rooms and palaces of the elite owners.
Warning to the politically-sensitive: allowances should be made for a book written in the standards acceptable at the time. All the people are stereotypes. A politically-correct rendering á la 2020 is entirely absent. It is a history with its underpants showing. The men are
hilariouslyatrociously lampooned. There is copious use made of caricature in the illustrations: the Kings of France and England, the explorers, the Indians (as they are named in this narrative), the women, and the representatives of the Hudson's Bay Company. Even the wildlife comes in for their share of Searle's wickedly-amusing parody.… (meer)