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Japanese-born Canadian poet and translator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Anthony Wevill (born 1935) is a Japanese-born Canadian poet and translator.[1] He became a dual citizen (American and Canadian) in 1994. Wevill is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at The University of Texas at Austin.[1]
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Wevill was born in Japan and went to Canada before the outbreak of World War II. He read History and English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and became a noted member of an underground literary movement in London known as The Group.
Wevill first made a name for himself as a poet when he was included in Al Alvarez's anthology The New Poetry (Penguin, 1962), aimed at resisting the conservative milieu of mainstream British poetry. In 1963 Wevill was showcased in A Group Anthology (Oxford University Press). Wevill is also the former editor of Delos, a literary journal centered on poetry in translation and the poetics of translation.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry in 1981.[2]
Wevill was the third and final husband of Assia Wevill, from 1960 to her death in 1969.
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