Champion of CanLit, Robert Weaver dies
p2pnet news | Off Topic:- “The best friend the Canadian short story ever had,” is how the National Post describes Robert Weaver, dead at the age of 87.
Broadcaster and editor,.he’s, “credited with helping to launch the career of Alice Munro – whose work he featured on CBC radio, where he was producer of literary programming – as well as those of Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies and Timothy Findley,” says the Montreal Gazette.
“His influence on Canadian writing is unassailable,” Findley once wrote about the man who helped discover him, says the story.
Weaver’s day job was at the CBC where, “he served as literature’s ambassador to radio,” says the National Post, going on:
“He edited Anthology, a half-hour weekly program of fiction and poetry, he organized fiction for a culturally ambitious program called CBC Wednesday night, and he kept himself busy hectoring CBC executives to devote more time and money to the writers of the country and maybe a little less to celebrity interviewers.
It adds:
“Recently Weaver has not been well but his friends and colleagues were hoping to see him Wednesday afternoon at Massey College, for the launch of Robert Weaver: Godfather of Canadian Literature (Véhicule Books), by Elaine Kalman Naves. John Fraser and Barry Callaghan were among those scheduled to pay tribute to him -though everyone knew that in his usual fashion Bob would be embarrassed by what would certainly be lavish praise.
‘With its central figure dead the event will go forward, but as a wake rather than a promotion party.”
Also See:
National Post - The best friend the Canadian short story ever had, January 28, 2008
Montreal Gazette – CanLit champion Robert Weaver dies, January 28, 2008
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