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David Arnason (born 23 May 1940) is a Canadian author and poet of Icelandic heritage from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Life

Born in Gimli, Manitoba, Arnason is of Icelandic descent and often writes about the Icelandic community in Canada. He is the son of Baldwin and Gudrun Arnason and the eldest of seven children. He attended the University of Manitoba where he received a B.A. (1961), a Certificate in Education (1963) and M.A. (1969), and has a PhD from the University of New Brunswick (1983–1984).

Arnason co-founded the Journal of Canadian Fiction

Works

  • 1980: Marsh Burning
  • 1981: The Icelanders
  • 1982: Fifty Stories and a Piece of Advice
  • 1984: The Circus Performers' Bar
  • 1987: Skrag
  • 1989: The Happiest Man in the World and Other Stories
  • 1992: The Pagan Wall
  • 1994: The Dragon and the Dry Goods Princess
  • 1994: The New Icelanders: A North American Community
  • 1995: If Pigs Could Fly
  • 2001: King Jerry
  • 2002: The Demon Lover
  • 2005: The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg Edited by David Arnason & Mhari Mackintosh, – The Imagined City won both The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and The Mary Scorer Book Award for best book by a Manitoba publisher in 2005.
  • 2010: Baldur's Song: A Saga

See also

  • Canadian literature
  • Canadian poetry
  • List of Canadian poets

References

  • "“The fiction that makes us real”: Playful Accreditation in David Arnason's “The Sunfish”", JSSE, Héliane Ventura
  • "Icelanders in North America:A Bibliography", Patrick J. Stevens, 17 June 1994