Robert Zend

{{Infobox writer

| name = Robert Zend

| birth_date = {{birth date text|1929}}

| birth_place = Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary

| death_date = 27 June, {{death year and age|1985|1929}}

| death_place = Toronto, Canada

| nationality = Hungarian-Canadian

| alma_mater = University of Toronto

| genre = Poetry
Short story

}}

Robert Zend (1929 - 1985) was a Hungarian-Canadian poet,{{Cite web |url=https://rogueembryo.com/2016/05/04/robertzend/ |title=Robert Zend, a poet without borders |date=4 May 2016 |access-date=2019-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406165408/https://rogueembryo.com/2016/05/04/robertzend/ |archive-date=2019-04-06 |url-status=live}} fiction writer and a multimedia artist.{{Cite web |url=http://www.robertzend.ca/esperanto.html |title=Robert Zend translated into Esperanto |access-date=2019-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406164953/http://www.robertzend.ca/esperanto.html |archive-date=2019-04-06 |url-status=live }}[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robert-zend Robert Zend] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406170745/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robert-zend |date=2019-04-06 }} at The Canadian Encyclopedia.

Born in Budapest, Zend fled to Canada after the failed Hungarian Uprising of 1956. 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.

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. A short story collection, Daymares: Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time, was published posthumously in 1991.

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.