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Dudek, Louis
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Dates of existence
1918-2001
History
Louis Dudek was born on February 6, 1918 in Montreal, Quebec. He started McGill University in 1936 and became a reporter and associate editor of the "McGill Daily". After graduation he worked as a freelance journalist for "The Montrealer" and other newspapers. He was also involved with the literary magazine "First Statement", founded by John Sutherland. On September 16, 1941 he married Stephanie Zuperko and they both moved to New York. He joined Columbia University as a postgraduate student in history and journalism, but he soon changed his major from history to literature. During these years, he kept in close contact with the Canadian literary scene and published articles and poems in First Statement. In 1944 some of his poems were published in Unit of Five, which also contained poems by P. K. Page, Ronald Hambleton, Raymond Souster and James Wreford. Two years later the Ryerson Press issued East of the City, his first separate collection of poems. On completion of his Doctoral Thesis he was offered an English appointment at City College in New York. In 1951 he joined McGill University where he lectured in modern poetry. He spent most of his life in this city and was a professor emeritus at McGill at the time of his death on March 23, 2001.