Endre Farkas

Endre Farkas (born 1948) is a Montreal-based poet, editor and playwright born in Hajdúnánás Hungary in 1948. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he fled to Canada with his parents, who were Holocaust survivors. When he first arrived, his given name Endre was Quebecized to André. During his undergraduate degree at Concordia University he participated in the Sir George Williams affair as an occupant. He then took a few years off to live at an artist commune called Meatball Creek Farm in the Quebec Eastern Townships.

Since the 1970s, he taught literature at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. He retired in 2008. His work has been published in six different languages: French, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian and Turkish. He was a part of the Montreal experimental writing collective, The Vehicule Poets and was a founding editor of Véhicule Press. He later founded the publishing press, The Muses’ Company. He won the Quebec Writers' Federation Community Award in 2011 "for the inclusiveness and power of his vision for Quebec literature," according to QWF spokeswoman Gina Roitman.

He participated in Dial-A-Poem Montreal 1985-1987.

Publications

Poetry


Prose

Drama

Edited

References

  1. 1 2 "Farkas, Endre, 1948- - Archival Collections Catalogue".
  2. 1 2 Mike Boone. "Montreal poet's own words become the stuff of theatrical centennial." Montreal Gazette. February 6, 2019. https://www.pressreader.com/canada/montreal-gazette/20090206/281621006228210
  3. 1 2 "Endre Farkas, Montrealer and Véhicule Poet." Montreal Underground Origins Blog. November 25, 2015. https://www.montrealundergroundorigins.ca/endre-farkas-montrealer-and-vehicule-poet/?complete=1
  4. ↑ Ian Mcgillis. Never, again: A Hungarian story with universal resonance. Montreal Gazette. February 10, 2017. https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/books/never-again-a-hungarian-story-with-universal-resonance
  5. 1 2 John Barber. "Endre Farkas lauded by Quebec writers." The Globe and Mail. November 11, 2011. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/endre-farkas-lauded-by-quebec-writers/article4250720/
  6. ↑ Andre Farkas and Ken Norris, eds. Montreal English Poetry of the Seventies. Montreal, QC: Véhicule Press, 1978. p. 139.
  7. ↑ Ray Filip. "Lord of the Rings." Books in Canada: A National Review of Books. March 1986. p. 4. Accessed 15 August 2019.