Kristjana Gunnars (born March 19, 1948 in

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ic-Canadian poet and novelist. She immigrated to Canada in 1969. Her works explore, among other themes, the 19th century Icelandic settler experience in Canada's prairie provinces.

Bibliography

Novels

*''The Prowler'' (1989), winner of the

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*''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

External links

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