Kristjana Gunnars
Kristjana Gunnars (born March 19, 1948 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist. She immigrated to Canada in 1969.[1] Her work explores, among other themes, 19th century Icelandic settler experience in Canada's prairie provinces.
Bibliography
Novels
The Prowler (1989), winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
The Substance of Forgetting (1992)
Night Train to Nykobing (1998)
Short Stories
The Guest House and Other Stories (1992)
Any Day But This (2004)
Poetry
One-eyed Moon Maps (1980)
Settlement Poems 1 (1980)
Settlement Poems 2 (1980)
Wake-pick Poems (1981)
The Axe's Edge (1983)
The Night Workers of Ragnorak (1985)
Exiles Among You (1996)
Carnival of Longing (1989)
Silence of the Country (2002)
Night Train to Nykøbing (2002)
Non-Fiction
Zero Hour (1991)
The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust (1996)
"Stranger at the Door " (2004)
Criticism
- in German: Elisabeth Paleczek, Schreiben in einem anderen Land: Erinnerung, Gedächtnis und Identität in ausgewählten Werken Laura Goodman Salversons und Kristjana Gunnars'. AV Akademikerverlag, Riga 2013
References
- Miska, John P. (1990). Ethnic and native Canadian literature : a bibliography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802058523. OCLC 21448823.
External links
- Kristjana Gunnars' entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Gunnars at English-Canadian writers, Athabasca University, with 7 further weblinks; 2015