Eli Mandel

Peter Webb

Ed. by Karis Shearer, University of British Columbia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 3 Dec 1922
Died 3 Sep 1992
Activity 1954-1992

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Cultural Identities

Jewish

Activities

Primary

Poet

Other

Literary Critic/ Historian

Resources

Mandel's Works

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Eli Mandel was one of Canada’s most prolific and influential modernist and contemporary poets. A winner of the Governor General’s Award for the monograph

An Idiot Joy

(1967), Mandel published nine other poetry collections during his lifetime and was also an important anthologist, critic, and professor of literature. Known mainly for highly allusive, intricate, formally complex poetry, Mandel worked in both short and long forms, the latter culminating in

Out of Place

(1977), a book inspired by his rural Saskatchewan birthplace. As a Jewish poet, Mandel was also concerned with matters of Jewish history, heritage, and persecution.

Elias Wolf Mandel was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan in 1922 to parents of Russian-Jewish origin. The area around Estevan had been settled in the 1890s by

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Citation: Webb, Peter. "Eli Mandel". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 March 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2906, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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