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'', June 22, 2011. 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
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'', he was an influential figure in Canada in introducing ideas about
postmodernism
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.Robert Kroetsch's entry in
The Canadian Encyclopedia
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.
He was born in
Heisler, Alberta
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The community has the name of Martin Heisler, the original owner of the land. It is the home Canada's largest baseba ...
. He began his academic career at
Binghamton University
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(State University of New York); after returning to Canada in the mid-1970s he taught at the
University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.Winnipeg
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. Kroetsch spent several years in
Victoria, British Columbia
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, before returning to Winnipeg, then to retirement in Alberta, where he continued to write. In 2004 he was made an Officer of the
Order of Canada
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To coincide with the cen ...
.
Bibliography
Novels
* ''But We Are Exiles'' – 1965
* ''The Words of My Roaring'' – 1966
* ''The Studhorse Man'' – 1969 (winner of the 1969 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 a
Governor General's Award
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The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by th ...
)
* ''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
*
Canadian literature
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*
Canadian poetry
Canadian poetry is poetry of or typical of Canada. The term encompasses poetry written in Canada or by Canadian people in the official languages of English and French, and an increasingly prominent body of work in both other European and Indigenou ...
*
List of Canadian poets
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A
*Mark Abley (born 1955), poet, journalist, editor, and non-fiction writer.
*Milton Acorn (1923–1986), poet, writer, and playwright
* José Acqueli ...
Further reading
* 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. 73–8 en ligne
University of Calgary
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University of Manitoba
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Athabasca University
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