People & Places
Meet the members of IERG
You can learn more about IERG members by viewing the IERG Organizational Structure Chart, Country of Origin table, Alphabetical Name Listing, or by Subject Category
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Name: Max Wyman | Email: |
| Country: | Canada |
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| Member Category: | Associate |
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Bio:
MAX WYMAN is a Vancouver writer, historian and biographer, and one of Canadas leading cultural commentators. He was arts critic and arts columnist for newspapers in Vancouver for over 30 years, was founder-editor of The Vancouver Sun Review of Books, and has published several books on the arts, among them Dance Canada: An Illustrated History (named one of the 165 Great Canadian Books of the Century in 2000). He was for six years a board member of the Canada Council for the Arts, and is currently President of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. For his services to the arts, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2001, and received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Simon Fraser University in 2003. His new book,The Defiant Imagination: Why Culture Matters (Douglas & McIntyre, 2004), is a passionate manifesto asserting the central importance of the arts and culture to modern society.
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