Irving Layton

Irving Layton (1912-2006), born Israel Pincu Lazarovitch in Târgu Neamț in Romania, arrived in Montreal at the age of one, where his mother ran a small grocery and where his devout father studied the Talmud. Trained in agronomy and then in political economy, he taught in a Jewish secondary school in Montreal, then at Sir George Williams and at York. A publisher of small presses from the forties onward, he had the young Leonard Cohen as a pupil and then as a friend, and was nominated for the Nobel in 1981 by Italy and South Korea. Suffering from Alzheimer's disease, he died in Montreal.

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• PoetryA Red Carpet for the SunIrving Layton · 1959Literature