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Robert Zend

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Robert Zend
Born1929 (1929)
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died27 June, 1985 (aged 55–56)
Toronto, Canada
NationalityHungarian-Canadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
GenrePoetry
Short story

Robert Zend (1929 - 1985) was a Hungarian-Canadian poet,[1] fiction writer and a multimedia artist.[2][3]

Born in Budapest, Zend fled to Canada after the failed Hungarian Uprising of 1956.[3] He took a master's degree in Italian literature from the University of Toronto in 1969, and worked as a producer of Ideas documentaries for CBC Radio.[3]

His poetry collections included From Zero to One (1973), Beyond Labels (1982) and Arbormundi (1982); Oāb, was published in two separate volumes in 1983 and 1985.[3] A short story collection, Daymares: Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time, was published posthumously in 1991.[3]

Zend was part of a trilogy of Toronto poets who published with HMS Press et al. The Three Roberts with Robert Sward and Robert Priest in 1984.

References

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  1. ^ "Robert Zend, a poet without borders". 4 May 2016. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  2. ^ "Robert Zend translated into Esperanto". Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  3. ^ a b c d e Robert Zend Archived 2019-04-06 at the Wayback Machine at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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