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