Henry Kreisel, OC

Order of Canada

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 (June 5, 1922 – April 22, 1991) was a Canadian

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 writer. Born in Vienna

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, Austria

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, he was educated at the University of Toronto

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Kreisel's mother was born in Poland

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 and his father in Romania

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In 1987, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is, within the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, the second highest honour for merit...

, Toronto Chapter.

Henry Kreisel's essay "The Prairie: A State of Mind" is an important and frequently anthologized essay of early Western Canadian regionalism.

External links

• Henry Kreisel at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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