Endre Farkas
Montreal-based poet
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Endre Farkas (born 1948) is a Montreal-based poet, editor and playwright born in Hajdúnánás Hungary in 1948.[1] After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he fled to Canada with his parents, who were Holocaust survivors.[1] When he first arrived, his given name Endre was Quebecized to André.[2] During his undergraduate degree at Concordia University he participated in the Sir George Williams affair as an occupant. He then took a few years off to live at an artist commune called Meatball Creek Farm in the Quebec Eastern Townships.[3]
Since the 1970s, he taught literature at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.[3] He retired in 2008.[2] His work has been published in six different languages: French, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian and Turkish.[4] He was a part of the Montreal experimental writing collective, The Vehicule Poets and was a founding editor of Véhicule Press.[5] He later founded the publishing press, The Muses’ Company.[6] He won the Quebec Writers' Federation Community Award in 2011 "for the inclusiveness and power of his vision for Quebec literature," according to QWF spokeswoman Gina Roitman.[5]
He participated in Dial-A-Poem Montreal 1985-1987.[7]
Publications
Poetry
- Szerbusz. Montreal, QC: DaVinci Press, 1974.
- Murders in the Welcome Café. Montreal QC: Véhicule Press, 1977.
- Romantic at Heart & Other Faults.Montreal, QC: Cross Country Press, 1979.
- From Here to Here, Montreal, Qc: The Muses' Company, 1980.
- Face Off, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QC: The Muses' Company, 1980
- How To, Dorion, QC: Muses’ Company, 1988.
- Howl Too, Eh? And Other Satires. By Endre Farkas and Ken Norris. Montreal, QC: Nuage Editions, 1991.
- Surviving Words, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QC: The Muses’ Company, 1994.
- In the Worshipful Company of Skinners. Winnipeg, MB: Muses’ Company, 2003.
- Quotidian Fever: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2007. Winnipeg, MB: Muses’ Company, 2007.
- Blood Is Blood, By Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie Souaid. Winnipeg, MB: Signature Editions, 2010.
Prose
- Never, Again, Winnipeg, MB: Signature Editions, 2016.
- Home Game, Winnipeg, MB: Signature Editions, 2019
Drama
- Surviving Wor(l)ds. Winnipeg, MB: Scirocco Drama, 1999.
- Voices. Dorian, QC: CD Poetry, 2002.
Edited
- Montreal English Poetry of the Seventies, Endre Farkas and Ken Norris eds. Montreal, QC: Vhicule Press, 1977.
- The Other Language: English Poetry of Montreal, Endre Farkas ed. Dorion, QC: Muses’ Company, 1989.
- Quebec Suite: Poems for and about Quebec, Endre Farkas ed. Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QC: Muses’ Company, 1995.
- The Collected Books of Artie Gold, Endre Farkas and Ken Norris eds. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 2010.
- Language Matters: Interviews with 22 Quebec Poets, Endre Farkas and Carolyn Marie Souaid eds. Winnipeg, MB: Signature Editions, 2013.