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Henry Beissel
Henry Beissel is a writer and
editor who has published 16 volumes of poetry, six books of plays, a
non-fiction book on Canada, two anthologies of plays intended for use
in high schools, and numerous essays and pieces of short fiction. Beissel’s
internationally successful Inuk and the Sun (“a mythic masterpiece,”
Sherrill Grace) premiered at the Stratford Festival of Canada in 1973.
His work has been translated into many languages.
Beissel had a distinguished
teaching career in English Literature, and later in Creative Writing,
which started as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Toronto. He taught at the University of Munich
(1960–62), the University of Alberta (1962–64), and Concordia University
(1966–96), from which he retired as Distinguished Emeritus Professor
of English.
He lives with his wife, Arlette
Francière, in Ottawa.
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