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Robert Zend (1929 - 1985) was a Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer and a multimedia artist.

Born in Budapest, Zend fled to Canada after the failed Hungarian Uprising of 1956. He took a master's degree in Italian literature from the University of Toronto in 1969, and worked as a producer of Ideas documentaries for CBC Radio.

His poetry collections included From Zero to One (1973), Beyond Labels (1982) and Arbormundi (1982); Oāb, was published in two separate volumes in 1983 and 1985. A short story collection, Daymares: Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time, was published posthumously in 1991.

Zend was part of a trilogy of Toronto poets who published with HMS Press et al. The Three Roberts with Robert Sward and Robert Priest in 1984.

References

1. "Robert Zend, a poet without borders". 4 May 2016. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
2. "Robert Zend translated into Esperanto". Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
3. ^ Robert Zend Archived 2019-04-06 at the Wayback Machine at The Canadian Encyclopedia.

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• Official website
• Robert Zend, dedications, works, links

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