Kildare Dobbs

Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs, (born 10 October 1923) is a Canadian short story and travel writer.

Life
Born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, he was educated in Ireland and later spent 5 years in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. After the war he worked in the British Colonial Service in Tanganyka. Dobbs came to Canada in 1952 and became a teacher, editor for Macmillan of Canada, managing editor of Saturday Night, and book editor of the Toronto Star.

Dobbs lives in Toronto, Ontario with his wife Linda Kooluris Dobbs, a noted portrait artist, painter and photographer.

Recognition
In 2000, he was awarded the Order of Ontario.

Publications

 * Running to Paradise – 1962 (winner of the 1962 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
 * Reading the Time – 1968
 * Canada 1964 1965
 * The Great Fur Opera – 1970 (Dobson/McClelland and Stewart, ISBN 978-0-234-77609-4)
 * Pride and Fall: A Novella and Six Stories – 1981 (Clarke, Irwin, ISBN 978-0-7720-1368-2)
 * Historic Canada – 1984 (Methuen, ISBN 978-0-458-98530-2)
 * Coastal Canada – 1985
 * Anatolian Suite: Travels and Discursions in Turkey – 1989 (Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 978-0-316-18779-4)
 * Ribbon of Highway: By Bus Along the Trans-Canada – 1991 (Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 978-0-316-18784-8)
 * Smiles and Chukkers & Other Vanities – 1994 (Little, Brown & Co., ISBN 978-0-316-18776-3)
 * The Eleventh Hour: Poems for the Third Millennium – 1997 (Mosaic, ISBN 978-0-88962-637-9)
 * Casablanca: The Poem – 1999 (Ekstasis Editions, ISBN 978-1-896860-58-9)
 * Running the Rapids:A Writer's Life – 2005 (Dundurn, ISBN 978-1-55002-594-1)
 * "Casanova in Venice: A Raunchy Rhyme" with nine original wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates- 2010 (Porcupine's Quill, ISBN 978-0-88984-332-5)