Kildare Dobbs
Kildare Robert Eric Dobbs OOnt (10 October 1923 – 1 April 2013) was a Canadian short story and travel writer. Kildare Dobbs was 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 Tanganyika.
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Kildare Dobbs
- Born
- 1923 · Meerut.
- Died
- 2013 · Toronto.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Honours
- Member of the Order of Canada · Order of Ontario · Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
- Languages
- English
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Kildare Dobbs lived from 1923 to 2013 and was a writer.
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Kildare Dobbs was born in 1923 and died in 2013.
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Born at Meerut in 1923, died in Toronto in 2013.
The recorded working language is English. Distinctions recorded are Member of the Order of Canada, Order of Ontario and Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.
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