Barwin, Gary

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Name (Latin)
Barwin, Gary
Date of birth
1964-02-10
Place of birth
Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Associated country
Canada
Place of residence/headquarters
Hamilton (Ont.)
Occupation
Artists
College teachers
Authors
Composers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 1630902
Wikidata: Q5524664
Library of congress: n 90640950
Sources of Information
  • A cemetery for holes, 2019:CIP title page (Gary Barwin) LAC CIP application (Canadian; born February 10, 1964)
  • LAC internal file, March 19, 2019(heading: Barwin, Gary)
  • Yiddish for pirates, 2016:title page (by Gary Barwin) page 3 of jacket (Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, multimedia artist and the author of twenty books of poetry, fiction and books for children; his recent books include the short fiction collection I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457, and the poetry collections Moon Baboon Canoe and The Wild and Unfathomable Always; a Ph. D. in music composition, Barwin has been Writer-in-Residence at Western University and Young Voices E-Writer-in-Residence at the Toronto Public Library, and has taught creative writing at a number of colleges and universities; born in Northern Ireland to South African parents of Ashkenazi descent, Barwin moved to Canada as a child; he is married with three adult children and lives in Hamilton, Ontario)
  • nuc90-29105: Ten tandem via York, c1987(hdg. on CaOTU rept.: Barwin, Gary; usage: Gary Barwin)
  • His Cruelty to fabulous animals, c1995:t.p. (Gary Barwin) about the author (b. in Belfast, N. Ireland and moved to Canada; lives in Ontario)
  • Yiddish for pirates, 2016:back flap (writer, composr, multi-media artist; lives in Hamilton, Ontario)
  • born 1964 ( (Wikipedia, August 7, 2016:) )