
Turvey
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A casualty before he has a chance to see action, Turvey watches the maimed and dying return from the front; thus Earle Birney's comic masterpiece becomes an unforgettable indictment of war.
Turvey won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1949.
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During the Second World War, Birney served in the Canadian army as a personnel selection officer in Britain and in Holland, and his wartime experiences furnished him with material for his first novel, Turvey, which won him the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. Birney's reputation as a poet was established with his first two volumes, David and Other Poems and Now is Time, both of them winning Governor General's Awards. As a chronicler and interpreter of Canadian life, Birney responded openly and carefully to the many developments in poetry during his life.
From 1946 until 1965, Birney was Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, where he founded Canada's first department of creative writing.
Earle Birney died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1995.
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