Farley Mowat, "a passionate activist and environmentalist, intrepid adventurer, and, most of all, a wildly talented and prolific author whose work captured this country's natural landscape better than perhaps any other writer," died yesterday, the National Post reported. He was 92. Mowat wrote 40 books, including Never Cry Wolf, and said he was lucky to be able to combine his two passions: writing and nature, calling it "the only subject I really want to write about.""First and foremost, he was a writer in every fiber of his being," said his friend and former publisher, Scott McIntyre. "He was also the first Eco-Warrior. He was writing about the planet, with conviction and passion, long before anyone else. He wrote from his heart, and he had a very deep passion for this country, for the land and the creatures."
Dorris Heffron, chair of the Writers' Union of Canada, which Mowat helped found, said Mowat "contributed so much to Canadian literature and to the moral conscience of Canada with his books and actions. He encouraged people to care better for our aboriginal people in the north, for our wildlife and for the environment. He is a hero of Canadian literature."
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Activist and poet Jack Agüeros, who went from "a childhood in East Harlem to defending its Puerto Rican people as an antipoverty official, celebrating its culture by expanding and moving El Museo del Barrio, and memorializing its greatest poet by translating the complete works of Julia de Burgos," died Sunday, the New York Times reported. He was 79. Poet Martin Espada was instrumental in getting Agüeros's writing published, including Correspondence Between the Stone Haulers, Sonnets from the Puerto Rican and Lord, Is This a Psalm?
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