A Virtual Display
GeorgeWoodcock
Portrait by Tom Smith
1912-1995
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GeorgeWoodcock |
Portrait by Tom Smith |
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1912-1995 |
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George Woodcock lectured in English at the University of British Columbia during the 1950s and 1960s, and edited the critical quarterly Canadian Literature from 1959 to 1977. Born in Winnipeg, he grew up in Shropshire and began his writing career in London. In 1949, he married the artist Ingeborg Linzer, and that same year returned to Canada. After a few years on Vancouver Island, they made their home in Vancouver. A friend and colleague in England of such famous modern writers as Julian Symons, Mulk Raj Anand, and George Orwell, he became friends in Canada with such literary and artistic figures as Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Al Purdy, and Jack Shadbolt. |
| Often called "Canada's foremost man of letters," Woodcock was the author and editor of over 120 books, several hundred essays, 2 dozen radio plays, and scores of talks and reviews. He enjoyed several roles: social historian, cultural commentator, literary critic, poet, translator, biographer, travel writer, social activist (he founded, with his wife, the Tibetan Refugee Organization and Canada-India Village Aid, and he was instrumental in setting up The Writers' Development Trust), and articulate theorist of anarchism and other libertarian movements. Internationally renowned, he helped establish the high profile now enjoyed by Canadian writers, he charted the history of social ideals, and he worked tirelessly for a better world. | |
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| City of Vancouver Proclamation of Saturday, May 7th 1994 as "George Woodcock Day." Signed by Mayor Philip Owen. | |
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