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 works explore, among other themes, the 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

1. 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