Kim Maltman (born 1951) is a

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and

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who lives in

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, Ontario. He is a professor of

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and pursues research in theoretical

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. He is serving as a judge for the 2019

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Works

*''The Country of the Mapmakers'' (1977), *''The Sicknesses of Hats'' (1982), *''Branch Lines'' (1982), *''Softened Violence'' (1984), *''The Transparence of November / Snow'' (1985), (with

Roo Borson Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (born January 20, 1952 in Berkeley, California) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. After undergraduate studies at UC Santa Barbara and Goddard College, she received an MFA from th ...

) *''Technologies/Installations'' (1990), *''Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei'' (2000), (by

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)

External links

* Archives of Kim Maltma
(Roo Robson and Kim Maltman fonds, (R12759)
are held at

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