Norman Levine

Albert Norman Levine (October 22, 1923 – June 14, 2005) was a Canadian short story writer, novelist and poet who spent most of his adult life in England. He is perhaps best remembered for his terse prose. Though he was part of the St. Ives artistic community in Cornwall, and friends with painters Patrick Heron and Francis Bacon, his written expression was not abstract, but concrete. "The leaner the language the more suggestive," he wrote in his 1993 essay, ''Sometimes It Works''.

Levine's reputation stood high in the United Kingdom and in Europe, although his reputation has been overshadowed in Canada because of his unflattering portrayals of the underside of Canadian life. Heinrich Böll was a champion of Levine's work. Provided by Wikipedia