William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself.
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Margaret AtwoodAlso won Lorne Pierce Medal
Josef ŠkvoreckýAlso won Toronto Book Awards
Ásgeir ÁsgeirssonAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Manitoba
Mordecai RichlerAlso won Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
Bob RaeAlso won Order of Ontario
Eleanor CattonAlso won Governor General's Award for English-language fictionAbout this person
William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.
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Writer / Author
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1913 to 1995 · aged 82
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