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Gunnars, Kristjana

Poetry

House of Anansi Pr

"In this superbly crafted series of short stories Kristjana Gunnars explores the wellsprings of emotion and the isolation of individuals as they try to come to grips with their lives. Her characters are ordinary, but their perspectives are unique: several portray the isolation and loneliness felt by women trapped in roles and situations over which they seem to have no control."

Guest House and Other Stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

At the beginning of a new writing project―whether it’s the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is “like someone you don’t know knocking on your door―you either choose to let the person in or not. It’s both exciting and dangerous to start a new manuscript.” This book is an engagement with that “stranger” called writing.   Creative or imaginative writing is a complex process that involves more than intellect alone. Writers make use of everything: their sensibilities, history, culture, knowledge, experience, education, and even their biology. These essays seek out, and gather into a discussion, what writers have said about their own experiences in writing. Although the writers are from around the world and of very different backgrounds, the commonality of their remarks brings home the realization that writers everywhere are grappling with similar problems―with the seemingly simple problems of when, where, why, and what to write, but also larger questions such as the relationship between writer and society, or issues of privacy, appropriation, or homelessness. While none of these questions can be definitively answered, they can be fruitfully discussed.   Originating as questions posed in creative-writing seminars, these essays have grown into companion texts for both writers and readers who want to participate in a conversation about what writers do.

Stranger at the Door: Writers and the Act of Writing

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

A powerful postmodern novel combining the elements of a psychological thriller with the history of a people trapped by landscape and politics. A poetically charged text prowls the isolation and heartbreak of a girl growing up in Iceland in the post-war years, and her later experiences as an immigrant in North America. What emerges is a widening mystery of origins in which every word becomes a clue to the unspoken.

Prowler

United States

Red Deer Press

A powerful postmodern novel combining the elements of a psychological thriller with the history of a people trapped by landscape and politics. A poetically charged text prowls the isolation and heartbreak of a girl growing up in Iceland in the post-war years, and her later experiences as an immigrant in North America. What emerges is a widening mystery of origins in which every word becomes a clue to the unspoken.

The Prowler (Fiction)

Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 
 The story of a daughter's vigil over her father's death and her journey through grief in the aftermath of his decision to die with dignity. An unforgettable book, a poetically charged memoir of the author's passage through grief.

Zero Hour

"Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction" The story of a daughter's vigil over her father's death and her journey through grief in the aftermath of his decision to die with dignity. An unforgettable book, a poetically charged memoir of the author's passage through grief.

Zero Hour (Anthologies)

Parenting & Relationships

In the tradition of Marguerite Duras, Gunnars explores a multi-layered romance-between East and West, rural and urban, silence and words.

The Substance of Forgetting (Fiction)

Literary

In the tradition of Marguerite Duras, Gunnars explores a multi-layered romance-between East and West, rural and urban, silence and words.

Substance of Forgetting

Kristjana Gunnars Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction  Combines the genres of fiction and memoir -- a narrative strategy for which Gunnars has become widely respected. Focusing on a woman whose life has become a curious mix of reality and fiction, the novel responds to the issue of language and one's place in culture, provoking the essential question of what role literature plays in our lives.

Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust

Contemporary

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