2-521: David William Fennario (born David Wiper , 26 April 1947 – 16 September 2023) was a Canadian playwright, best known for Balconville (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal , for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award . A committed Marxist, Fennario was a candidate for the Union des forces progressistes in 2003 and for Québec solidaire in 2007 . He has been
4-521: The subject of two National Film Board of Canada documentaries, David Fennario's Banana Boots and Fennario: His World On Stage. His pen name, "Fennario," given to him by a former girlfriend, is from a Bob Dylan song, "Pretty Peggy-O." Fennario died on 16 September 2023, at the age of 76. Bowman, Martin (1982), Interview with David Fennario , in Cencrastus No. 8, Spring 1982, pp. 6 - 8, ISSN 0264-0856 This article about
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