David Wevill, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

David Wevill

Canadian poet

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1935

Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Profession: poet

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About David Wevill

  • David Anthony Wevill (born 1935) is a Canadian poet and translator.
  • 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. 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 A.
  • 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.
  • Wevill was the third and final husband of Assia Wevill, from 1960 to her death in 1969.

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