Christopher Kelen

Professor Christopher (Kit) Kelen (born 17 December 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian academic, writer, and artist. He is the younger son of Hungarian-born writer Stephen Kelen and the younger brother of poet S. K. Kelen.

Christopher Kelen
Born (1958-12-17) 17 December 1958
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Pen nameKit Kelen
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
University of Western Sydney
Website
kitkelen.com

Kelen is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry and two novels. He has been published widely since the mid-1970s and in 1988 won an ABA/ABC bicentennial award with his poem "Views from Pinchgut".[1]

In 1992, "The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees" won an Anne Elder Award.[2] Kelen was Writer-in-Residence for the Australia Council at the B. R. Whiting Library in Rome in 1996.[2]

For many years, Kelen taught Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Macau.[3] As of 2020, he lived in Sydney.[4]

Kelen has published several book-length scholarly works about poetry, including Poetry, Consciousness and Community (2009), City of Poets (2009), and Anthem Quality (2014).

Bibliography

Poetry

  • The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees (1992)
  • Green Lizard Manifesto (1997)
  • Möbius (1998)
  • Republics (2000)
  • New Territories (2003)
  • Eight Days in Lhasa (2006)
  • A Map of the Seasons (2006)
  • Dredging the Delta (2007)
  • After Meng Jiao (2008)
  • China Years (2011)
  • Pictures of Nothing at All (2014)
  • Scavengers' Season (2014)
  • As to the Ladders of Whichway (2015)
  • A Pocket Kit (2) (2015)
  • Poor Man's Coat (2018)

Novels

  • Punk's Travels (1980)
  • A Wager with the Gods (2006)

References
  1. Kelen, Christopher, AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, 20 November 2007.
  2. TextJournal Oct. 98
  3. "Department of English - Prof. Christopher KELEN". University of Macau. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  4. About Kit Kelen, kitkelen.com, accessed 13-Nov-2020
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