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David Arnason

b. 1940

Canadian writer

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Born 1940. David Arnason is a Canadian novelist, poet, writer and author.

David Arnason (born 23 May 1940) is a Canadian author and poet of Icelandic heritage from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Life Born in Gimli, Manitoba, Arnason is of Icelandic descent and often writes about the Icelandic community in Canada. He is the son of Baldwin and Gudrun Arnason and the eldest of seven children. He attended the University of Manitoba where he received a B.A. (1961), a Certificate in Education (1963) and M.A. (1969), and has a PhD from the University of New Brunswick (1983–1984). Arnason co-founded the Journal of Canadian Fiction

Works 1980: Marsh Burning 1981: The Icelanders 1982: Fifty Stories and a Piece of Advice 1984: The Circus Performers' Bar 1987: Skrag 1989: The Happiest Man in the World and Other Stories 1992: The Pagan Wall 1994: The Dragon and the Dry Goods Princess 1994: The New Icelanders: A North American Community 1995: If Pigs Could Fly 2001: King Jerry 2002: The Demon Lover 2005: The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg Edited by David Arnason & Mhari Mackintosh, – The Imagined City won both The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and The Mary Scorer Book Award for best book by a Manitoba publisher in 2005. 2010: Baldur's Song: A Saga

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University of Manitoba, University of New Brunswick

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Canadian writer

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David Arnason was born on 23 May 1940 in Gimli.

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David Arnason is a novelist, poet, writer and author.

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David Arnason is Canadian.

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