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Call Number: Mss 111 (A.90-66), Tc 69
Title: David Arnason and Wayne Tefs fonds.
Dates: 1975-1977.
Extent: 45 audio reels.
Biographical sketch: Professor David Arnason
was born in Gimli, Manitoba, in 1940. He graduated with a B.A. and
M.A. from the University of Manitoba and a Ph.D. from the University
of New Brunswick. He returned to join the faculty of the University
of Manitoba in 1972. Arnason founded the Journal of Canadian
Fiction, which he edited for several years, and was one of
the founders of Turnstone Press. Among his best-known books are
The Happiest Man in the World and Other Stories (1989),
Fifty Stories and a Piece of Advice (1982), The Circus
Performers' Bar (1984) and The Pagan Wall (1992).
Wayne Tefs obtained his B.A. at the University of Manitoba, his
M.A. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from the University
of Manitoba. He has taught at St. John's Ravenscourt School, the
University of Regina, McGill University and the University of Winnipeg.
He was a founder of The Sphynx literary magazine and of
Turnstone Press. He has published four novels including Figures
on a Wharf (1983), The Cartier Street Contract (1985),
The Canaster Players (1990) and Dickie (1993).
Scope and content: The fonds consists of 45 one-hour
audiotaped interviews of several well-known Canadian writers. Professor
David Arnason and Wayne Tefs conducted these interviews between
1975 and 1977 for the radio program Canadian Writers Symposium.
Many of the interviews are distinctly biographical in nature and
revealing of the life and creativity of the individual writers.
A few of the interviews have been transcribed. Included are interviews
of Milton Acorn, George Bowering, Paul Hiebert, Pat Lane, Daphne
Marlott, W.O. Mitchell, P.K. Page, Al Purdy, William Valgardson,
Adele Wiseman, and many more.
Custodial history: The fonds was donated to University
of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections by David Arnason
and Wayne Tefs in 1990.
Related material: David Arnason fonds (MSS SC
171, MSS 197, PC 183)
Finding aid: Preliminary inventory available
in Archives reading room.
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