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Kreisel, Henry was born on June 5, 1922 in Vienna, Austria. Son of David Leo and Helene (Schreier) Kreisel.
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Henry Kreisel
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Henry Kreisel, Canadian University administrator. Recipient U. Western Ontario President's medal, 1960; J. I. Segal Found.award literature, 1983; Rutherford award for excellence in teaching U. Alba., 1986, Sir Frederick Haultain prize Government Alberta, 1986, Order of Canada, 1988; Reuben Wells Leonard fellow U. Toronto, 1946-1947; Royal Society.Can. Travelling fellow, 1953-1954.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, University Toronto, 1946; Master of Arts, University Toronto, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1954.
Career
The family, which was Jewish, managed to reach Britain just before the Second World War, but, like many other German-speaking refugees, they were declared enemy aliens after the war began. In 1940 Kreisel was relocated to Canada. He lived on a farm in New Brunswick until 1941.
It was there that he began his career as a writer, deciding to write in English and modelling himself on the bilingual author Joseph Conrad. After Canada decided to release the refugees from the camps they had been assigned to Kreisel decided to pursue his dream of writing and was educated at the University of Toronto. Kreisel became one of the first Jewish writers to write about Jewish-Canadian issues.
Later he spent time in Western Canada, and his essay "The Prairie: A State of Mind" is a frequently anthologized discussion of Western Canadian regionalism.
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The Almost Meeting: And Other Stories (Landmark Edition)
( As relevant and engaging today as when they were writte...)
- The Almost Meeting and Other Stories
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The Almost Meeting: And Other Stories (Landmark Edition)
Membership
Board Governors U. Alberta, 1966-1969. Vice president Edmonton Chamber Music Society, 1978-1980, president, 1980-1983. Advisor to Secretary of State for Multiculturalism, 1987.
Fellow Royal Society Arts (London), International Institute Arts and Letters (Geneva). Member Association Canada U. Teachers English (president 1962-1963).
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Married Esther Lazerson, June 22, 1947. 1 child, Philip.
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Recipient U. Western Ontario President's medal, 1960. J. I. Segal Found.award literature, 1983. Rutherford award for excellence in teaching U. Alba., 1986, Sir Frederick Haultain prize Government Alberta, 1986, Order of Canada, 1988. Reuben Wells Leonard fellow U. Toronto, 1946-1947. Royal Society.Can. Travelling fellow, 1953-1954.Recipient U. Western Ontario President's medal, 1960. J. I. Segal Found.award literature, 1983. Rutherford award for excellence in teaching U. Alba., 1986, Sir Frederick Haultain prize Government Alberta, 1986, Order of Canada, 1988.
Reuben Wells Leonard fellow U. Toronto, 1946-1947. Royal Society.Can. Travelling fellow, 1953-1954.