Robert Zend

Robert Zend (1929 - 1985) was a Hungarian-Canadian poet,^[1] fiction writer and a multimedia artist.^[2][3]

Robert Zend
Born	1929 (1929) Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	27 June, 1985 (aged 55–56) Toronto, Canada
Nationality	Hungarian-Canadian
Alma mater	University of Toronto
Genre	Poetry Short story

Born in Budapest, Zend fled to Canada after the failed Hungarian Uprising of 1956.^[3] He took a master's degree in Italian literature from the University of Toronto in 1969, and worked as a producer of Ideas documentaries for CBC Radio.^[3]

His poetry collections included From Zero to One (1973), Beyond Labels (1982) and Arbormundi (1982); Oāb, was published in two separate volumes in 1983 and 1985.^[3] A short story collection, Daymares: Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time, was published posthumously in 1991.^[3]

Zend was part of a trilogy of Toronto poets who published with HMS Press et al. The Three Roberts with Robert Sward and Robert Priest in 1984.