JOHN MARLYN was born in Nagy Becskerek, Hungary, in 1912. When he
was six months old, his family moved to Winnipeg’s North End, the
setting of his fiction.
Unable to find employment during the thirties, Marlyn went to
England, where he worked as a script reader for a film studio. He
returned to Canada just before the outbreak of the Second World War
and has worked since that time as a writer for various government
offices in Ottawa. From 1963 until 1967 he also taught creative
writing at Carleton University.
Under the Ribs of Death, Marlyn’s first novel and a powerful
portrait of immigrant life in its aspirations, its tragedies, and
its search for values, won the Beta Sigma Phi First Novel
Award.
John Marlyn resides in the Canary Islands.
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