Dave Godfrey

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Dave Godfrey (born August 8, 1928) is a Canadian writer and publisher. His novel The New Ancestors won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1970.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Godfrey was educated at the University of Toronto, Iowa State University, and Stanford University. He taught in Ghana for several years before teaching at the University of Toronto and the University of Victoria.

Godfrey was one of the founders of the House of Anansi and New Press and was editor of Press Porcépic. He now runs a small vineyard in the Cowichan Valley of British Columbia.

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