Timothy Findley
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Timothy Findley 🇨🇦

Tiff Findley (Known as "Timothy Irving Frederick Findley")
Novelist, Playwright, Author of The Wars and Famous Last Words
Born 30 October 1930 🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada
Passed Away 21 June 2002 Brignoles, France
Lifespan 71 years old
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"People can only be found in what they do; in the end, it is our loyalty to life and living creatures that defines our humanity."

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Eminent Canadian novelist and playwright whose masterpiece The Wars exposed the psychological trauma and animal vulnerability of human conflict.

Biographical Record

Timothy Findley was one of Canada's finest 20th-century novelists and screenwriters. Beginning his artistic career as an actor under Tyrone Guthrie at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Findley was encouraged to write by Thornton Wilder and Ruth Gordon, developing an evocative, deeply empathetic prose style.

His 1977 World War I novel, The Wars, won the Governor General's Award for Fiction and became an enduring classic of world literature, portraying the moral devastation of young soldier Robert Ross. Findley wrote acclaimed novels including Famous Last Words and Not Wanted on the Voyage, celebrated for his profound defense of the marginalized and animal life.

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Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Toronto, Canada
GPS: 43.6961, -79.3900
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