Leonard Cohen (1934- )
- poet, novelist, songwriter
- born September 21 1934, in Montreal, Quebec to
a wealthy Westmount family
- his father (an engineer who owned a clothing business) died when Leonard was nine
- attended McGill and Columbia
Universities
- at McGill he formed a country-western trio called the Buckskin Boys.
- has also lived in New York, the Greek island of Hydra, and Los Angeles
- Poetry:
- Let us Compare Mythologies (1956)
- The Spice-Box of Earth (1961)
- Flowers
for Hitler (1964)
- Parasites of Heaven (1966)
- Selected Poems1956-1968 (1968), he declined a Governor General's Award
- The Energy of Slaves
(1972)
- Book of Mercy
(1984)
- Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
(1993)
- Novels:
- The Favourite Game (1963)
- Beautiful Losers (1966)
- Music:
- The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1968)
- Songs From a Room (1969)
- Live Songs (1972)
- New Skin for the
Old Ceremony (1974)
- Best of Leonard Cohen (1975)
- Death of a Lady's Man (1977)
- Recent Songs (1979)
- Various Positions (1984),
- I'm Your Man (1988)
- The Future (1992)
- I'm Your Fan (1991) tribute album by other artists covering his songs
- received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award
in 1993
- works have been widely translated
- books about Leonard Cohen:
- Leonard Cohen (1974) by Jacques Vassal
- Leonard Cohen (1978) by Stephen Scobie
- Prophet Of The Heart (1990) by Loranne S. Dorman & Clive L. Rawlins
- So Long Leonard (1990) by Christof Graf
- Canadian Poetry - The Proceedings of the Leonard Cohen Conference (1993)
- Take
This Waltz: A Celebration of Leonard Cohen (1994)
- Leonard
Cohen: A Life in Art (1994), Ira Nadel;
- Various Positions - A Life of Leonard Cohen (1996) by Ira Nadel
- In Every Style of Passion (1996) by Jim Devlin
- Came so far for Love (1997) by Paul Barrera
- National Film Board films:
- filmography
- more information
- detailed fan pages
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