Geboorte:
30ste mei 1927 (maandag), Landmark, Manitoba
Overlijden:
22ste december 2015 (dinsdag)
Leeftijd op het moment van overlijden:
88
Info:
boren in de Karkengemeen Prairie Rose bi Landmark (Manitoba, Kanada); Söhn von en Schoolmeester; opwussen in Steinbach; he hett sik toeerst in Vancouver as Opernsänger utbillen laten, hett denn aver Engelsch in Winnipeg an dat United College un an de Yale University in New Haven studeert; 1968 hett he dat Studium afslaten un güng 1960 an de Universität Winnipeg, wo he bet to’n Rohstand 1990 bleven is
Info van Wikipedia:
Elmer E. 'Al' Reimer (1927-2015) was a Mennonite writer from Steinbach, Manitoba. Reimer was an important literary critic and writer in the emergence of southern Manitoba Mennonite literature during the 1970s and 80s. Born in Landmark, Manitoba, Reimer grew up in Steinbach and received his PhD at Yale University. He taught English literature at University of Winnipeg for many years.Influenced by fellow Steinbach resident Arnold Dyck, when the new wave of Mennonite literature, such as Rudy Wiebe and Patrick Friesen, emerged in the 1970s, Reimer wrote and edited for publications such as the Menn…
Geen eigen Nedersaksische werken, alleen vertalingen of werken over het Nedersaksisch.
Namen van Al Reimer:
- Elmer Reimer (andere naam)
- Elmer Edgar Ernest Reimer (volle naam)
- Reimer, Al
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Oplagen:
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📖A Sackful of Plautdietsch: A collection of Mennonite Low German stories and poems. Hyperion Press, Winnipeg 1983, ISBN 0-920534-25-2
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📖Kjenn jie noch Plautdietsch? A Mennonite Low German Dictionary. revised edition, Mennonite Literary Society, Winnipeg 1984
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📖Kjenn jie noch Plautdietsch? A Mennonite Low German Dictionary. second revised edition, PrairieView Press, Rosenort 1995, ISBN 1-896199-13-5