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David Arnason (born 23 May 1940) is a
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"“The fiction that makes us real”: Playful Accreditation in David Arnason's “The Sunfish”", ''JSSE'', Héliane Ventura
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David Arnason (born 23 May 1940) is a Canadian
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author and poet of Icelandic heritage from Winnipeg
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Life
Born in Gimli,Manitoba
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, Arnason is of Iceland
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ic descent and often writes about the Icelandic community in Canada. He is the son of Baldwin and Gudrun Arnason and the eldest of seven children. He attended the University of Manitoba
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(1961), a Certificate in Education (1963) and M.A.
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from the University of New Brunswick
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(1983-1984).
Arnason co-founded the ''Journal of Canadian Fiction'' with John Moss at the University of New Brunswick in 1972.
He was one of the co-founders of Queenston House Press in Winnipeg and has been an editor of Turnstone Press
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in Winnipeg since 1975. He was chairman of the Literary Press Group and a member of the executive of the Association of Canadian Publishers. He served on the Manitoba Arts Council
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1985–1987. He was a general editor of the Macmillan
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Themes in Canadian Literature series. He has been a member of the advisory board of Anansi Press. He began working for the CBC in the early 1970s; he has reviewed books and theatre, as well as created various radio adaptations. He has written short stories, poetry, and novels, fiction and non-fiction. He edited Dorothy Livesay's ''Right Hand, Left Hand''.
He has taught at the University of Manitoba since 1973 and was the head of the English Department from 1997 to 2006. He was Acting Head of the Department of Icelandic, at the University of Manitoba from 1998 to 2006. As of 2018 he is a full professor at the University of Manitoba and chair of both the Icelandic and the English departments. The University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections hold thDavid Arnason Fonds
which includes manuscripts and correspondence.
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Works
*1980: ''Marsh Burning'' *1981: ''The Icelanders'' *1982: ''Fifty Stories and a Piece of Advice'' *1984: ''The Circus Performers' Bar'' *1987: ''Skrag'' *1989: ''The Happiest Man in the World and Other Stories'' *1992: ''The Pagan Wall'' *1994: ''The Dragon and the Dry Goods Princess'' *1994: ''The New Icelanders: A North American Community'' *1995: ''If Pigs Could Fly'' *2001: ''King Jerry'' *2002: ''The Demon Lover'' *2005: ''The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg'' Edited by David Arnason & Mhari Mackintosh, – The Imagined City won both The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and The Mary Scorer Book Award for best book by a Manitoba publisher in 2005. *2010: ''Baldur's Song: A Saga''See also
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"“The fiction that makes us real”: Playful Accreditation in David Arnason's “The Sunfish”", ''JSSE'', Héliane Ventura
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