Dorothy Livesay

Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996), born in Winnipeg to two journalists, a father who was the first general manager of the Canadian Press and a mother who translated Ukrainian poetry, published a first book at eighteen. A student in Toronto and at the Sorbonne, a communist in the thirties, she was a social worker in Montreal and in New Jersey during the Depression. Honoured again in 1947, she taught in the early sixties in Northern Rhodesia for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Seen as a symbol of feminism, a label she rejected, she died in Victoria.

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• PoetryDay and NightDorothy Livesay · 1944Literature