About David Solway
Born 1941. David Solway is a Canadian poet, writer and literary critic.
David Solway (born 8 December 1941) is a Canadian poet, essayist, educational theorist, travel writer, and literary critic.
Biography Solway received a BA in English and Philosophy from McGill University in 1962, and a QMA in Philosophy in 1966. He has later received a MA in creative writing/English from Concordia University in 1988, a MA in education from Université de Sherbrooke in 1996, and a Ph.D summa cum laude from Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen in 1998. He was formerly a teacher at Dawson College and John Abbott College in Montreal, and at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, He has contributed political commentary to the conservative websites WorldNetDaily and PJ Media, and has been described as a part of the counter-jihad movement.
For inspiration, he invented a Greek poet named Andreas Karavis as a heteronym, whose work he published in apparent translation.
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Canadian poet
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David Solway was born on 8 December 1941.
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David Solway is a poet, writer and literary critic.
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