Louis Dudek
Louis Dudek (born February 6, 1918 in Montreal , † March 23, 2001 ibid) was a Canadian poet , university professor , essayist and literary critic . He is considered to be the pioneering founder of modernism in Canada.
Born in 1918 into the second generation of Polish immigrants in the Francophone part of Montreal, he was raised bilingually: Polish and English. In addition, he learned French, the official language of Quebec , as well as Latin, ancient Greek, Russian, Spanish, Italian and German. From 1939 he studied literature at McGill University in Montreal and wrote for the university magazine McGill Daily, in which his first poems also appeared. After graduating ( BA ), he moved to New York in 1944 and received his doctorate in English literature and comparative literature from Columbia University in New York . From 1951 to 1982 he taught European literature and literary history at McGill University in Montreal . Together with Raymond Souster and Irving Layton , he founded the publishing house "Contact Press" in 1952, in which mainly Canadian poets were published. But he was also significantly involved in other newspapers and magazines. In 1983 he was named Officer of the Order of Canada , Canada's highest honor for civilians.
His main works include "Zembla's Rocks" (1986), "Infinite Worlds" (1988), "Europe" (1954/1991), "The Caged Tiger" (1997), The "Poetry of Louis Dudek - Definitive Edition" (1998 ) and "The Surface of Time" (2000). Most of his writings are now in the National Library of Canada . In 2006 a selection of his poems was translated into German and published.
Dudek was an art teacher from Leonard Cohen .
Honor
- St. Jax Church, Montreal, memorial plaque for Dudek
German translation
- Louis Dudek: For you, you - For you, you. Selected poems. English German. Translated by Christian Filips , Joachim Sartorius . Ed., Afterword Bernhard Beutler. Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2006 ISBN 978-3-932245-79-4
literature
- Antje Schumacher: Mapping Louis Dudek, Canadian man of letters. Diss. Phil. TU Aachen , 2015
Web links
- Louis Dudek at Pearl Divers
- Louis Dudek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Louis Dudek published by Ivory Publishing
notes
- ↑ Illustration from the German-Canadian Society, DKG
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dudek, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian poet, university professor, essayist, and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 2001 |
| Place of death | Montreal |