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
  1. Miska, John P. (1990). Ethnic and native Canadian literature : a bibliography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802058523. OCLC 21448823.


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