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

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.