John Marlyn was a Hungarian-born Canadian writer who also used the pseudonym Vincent Reid when writing science fiction. Marlyn was born in Nagybecskerek, Hungary, but grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after arriving in Canada as an infant. During the depression-era 1930s, he found work as a script reader for a film studio in England. Just before World War II, he returned to Canada and worked as a writer for the Canadian government in Ottawa.

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  • John Marlyn was a Hungarian-born Canadian writer who also used the pseudonym Vincent Reid when writing science fiction. Marlyn was born in Nagybecskerek, Hungary, but grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after arriving in Canada as an infant. During the depression-era 1930s, he found work as a script reader for a film studio in England. Just before World War II, he returned to Canada and worked as a writer for the Canadian government in Ottawa. He also taught creative writing at Carleton University 1963-1967. Marlyn received a Beta Sigma Phi award for his first novel, a tale of poor immigrant life during the 1920s, set in Winnipeg's North End. Marlyn's papers were acquired by the University of Calgary in 1987. He lived in the Canary Islands until he died of a heart attack.
  • John Marlyn, né le 2 avril 1912Nagy Becskerek en Hongrie et décédé le 16 novembre 2005 aux Canaries était un romancier canadien d'origine hongroise. Arrivé au Canada quand il était encore enfant, il grandit à Winnipeg dans le Manitoba. Durant la crise économique des années 1930, il migre en Angleterre pour devenir lecteur de scénario pour un studio cinématographique. De retour au Canada, il enseigne à l'Université et publie son premier ouvrage en 1957. Ce premier livre, Under the Ribs of Death, retrace l'histoire d'un fils d'immigrant hongrois pour s'adapter au monde anglo-saxon... et lui vaut de décrocher le prix du premier roman Beta Sigma en 1958. Il publie en 1981 Putzi, I Love You, You Little Square sous le pseudonyme de Vincent Reid, puis s'essaye à la science-fiction en 2000 avec The Baker's Daughter. Il résidait aux Canaries.
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  • John Marlyn was a Hungarian-born Canadian writer who also used the pseudonym Vincent Reid when writing science fiction. Marlyn was born in Nagybecskerek, Hungary, but grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after arriving in Canada as an infant. During the depression-era 1930s, he found work as a script reader for a film studio in England. Just before World War II, he returned to Canada and worked as a writer for the Canadian government in Ottawa.
  • John Marlyn, né le 2 avril 1912Nagy Becskerek en Hongrie et décédé le 16 novembre 2005 aux Canaries était un romancier canadien d'origine hongroise. Arrivé au Canada quand il était encore enfant, il grandit à Winnipeg dans le Manitoba. Durant la crise économique des années 1930, il migre en Angleterre pour devenir lecteur de scénario pour un studio cinématographique. De retour au Canada, il enseigne à l'Université et publie son premier ouvrage en 1957.
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