Walter Bruno was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His career as a writer of plays includes three productions, ''Shouting for Joy'' and ''Hand-to-Hand'', and, in collaboration, a translation of Alfred Jarry's ''Ubu the King'', all staged in

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, Ontario. He was briefly playwright in residence at Toronto Free Theatre. In 2004, Bruno translated ''Two English Girls and the Continent'' (Cambridge Book Review Press), the first translation into English of ''Deux Anglaises et le Continent'' by Henri-Pierre Roché (author of ''Jules and Jim''). ''Two English Girls'' was the inspiration for

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's well-regarded adaptation of 1971 (see '' Two English Girls''). Bruno's poetry has been awarded prizes by Fiddlehead magazine and the

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. In 1996, his imprint, Authors Collective, published ''Long Shot Odyssey''. In 2006, it published ''Cat Walk and Other Poems''.

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