Kristjana Gunnars (born March 19, 1948, in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist. She immigrated to Canada in 1969. Her works explore themes including the 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
External links Kristjana Gunnars' entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia Gunnars at English-Canadian writers, Athabasca University, with 7 further weblinks; 2015