Robert Kroetsch
Appearance
Robert Paul KroetschOC(June 26, 1927 – June 21, 2011)[1]was a Canadian novelist, poet and nonfiction writer. In his fiction and critical essays, as well as in the journal he co-founded,boundary 2,he was an influential figure in Canada in introducing ideas aboutpostmodernism.[2]
He was born inHeisler, Alberta.[2]He began his academic career atBinghamton University(State University of New York); after returning to Canada in the mid-1970s he taught at theUniversity of ManitobainWinnipeg.Kroetsch spent several years inVictoria, British Columbia,before returning to Winnipeg, then to retirement in Alberta, where he continued to write. In 2004 he was made an Officer of theOrder of Canada.[2]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
- But We Are Exiles– 1965
- The Words of My Roaring– 1966
- The Studhorse Man– 1969 (winner of the1969 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
- Gone Indian– 1973
- Badlands– 1975
- What the Crow Said– 1978
- Alibi– 1983
- The Puppeteer– 1992
- The Man from the Creeks– 1998
- (in German) transl. Martina Tichy:Klondike.Die Ballade von Lou und Dangerous Dan McGrew.Schneekluth, Munich 2005
Poetry
- The Stone Hammer Poems– 1975
- The Ledger– 1975
- Seed Catalogue– 1977
- The Sad Phoenician– 1979
- The Criminal Intensities of Love as Paradise– 1981
- Field Notes: Collected Poems– 1981
- Advice to My Friends– 1985
- Excerpts from the Real Worlds: A Prose Poem in Ten Parts– 1986
- Completed Field Notes: The Long Poems of Robert Kroetsch– 1989
- The Hornbooks of Rita K– 2001 (nominated for aGovernor General's Award)
- The Snowbird Poems– 2004
- Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait– 2010
- I'm Getting Old Now- unknown
Other
- Alberta– 1968
- The Crow Journals– 1980
- Labyrinths of Voice: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch– 1982
- Letter to Salonika– 1983
- The Lovely Treachery of Words: Essays Selected and New– 1989
- A Likely Story: The Writing Life– 1995
- Abundance: The Mackie House Conversations about the Writing Life– 2007 (with John Lent)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Simona Bertacco:Out of place. The writings of Robert Kroetsch.Peter Lang, Berne 2002
- Francis Zichy:Disenchanted Modernity in Robert Kroetsch's "The Studhorse Man." Biology and Culture; Sex and Gender; Eugenics and Contraception; Writing and Reading.Peter Lang, New York 2011
- Fiona McMahon:Robert Kroetsch and archival culture in the Canadian long poem,in Études canadiennes. Revue interdisciplinaire en France, 74, 2013, p. 73–85en ligne
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Robert Kroetsch Biography
- Robert Kroetsch fonds (papers)atArchives and Special Collections,University of Calgary
- Complete listof literature (primary, secondary),University of Manitoba,1965–2004
- Kroetsch'sitem atAthabasca University,further links, e.g. to an interview with him
Categories:
- 1927 births
- 2011 deaths
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian male poets
- Canadian male novelists
- Officers of the Order of Canada
- Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers
- People from Flagstaff County
- Writers from Alberta
- Road incident deaths in Canada
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- Binghamton University faculty
- Canadian poet stubs