Name Kildare Dobbs | Role Short story writer | |
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Awards Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Books The great fur opera, Casanova in Venice: A Raunch, Running The Rapids, The eleventh hour, Historic Canada Similar People Ronald Searle, Sunil Gangopadhyay, John Varley, Michael Moorcock | ||
Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs, CM OOnt (10 October 1923 – 1 April 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 Weekly.
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 by the Right Honourable David Johnston, at his home in Toronto. He was cremated and his remains interred in the family grave in St Mary's (Church of Ireland) churchyard in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, Ireland.