Irving Layton, an internationally known Canadian writer who published about 50 books of poetry and prose over more than five decades and became one of his country’s top poets, has died. He was 93.

Irving Layton, a Nobel Prize-nominated poet and one of Canada’s most influential writers, died Wednesday at a Montreal hospital. He was 93 and had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease a decade ago.

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