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R.I.P. Paul Quarrington.

By Eric Hill • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the Interweb

An award-winning novelist, musician, filmmaker, playwright, and screenwriter, Paul Quarrington was perhaps Canada’s foremost renaissance man. He passed away Thursday morning after a nine-month battle with lung cancer. He was 56. A short statement on Quarrington’s website said that “he passed peacefully at home in Toronto in the early hours surrounded by friends and family. It is comforting to know that he didn’t suffer; he was calm and quiet holding hands with those who were closest to him.” He leaves behind two children, Carson Lara and Flannery.

Read a tribute to Paul Quarrington by Dave Bidini.

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