Janice Kulyk Keefer

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Janice Kulyk Keefer (born 2 June 1952) is a Canadian novelist and poet.

Born in Toronto, she studied literature at universities in England and France, and currently teaches literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the University of Guelph.

Of Ukrainian heritage, Kulyk Keefer often writes about the experiences of first-generation Canadian children of immigrants.

She was named winner of the Marian Engel Award for her body of work in 1999.

[edit] Works

• White of the Lesser Angels (1986)
• The Paris-Napoli Express (1986)
• Transfigurations (1987)
• Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction (1987, nominated for the 1987 Governor General's Awards)
• Constellations (1988, nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award)
• Reading Mavis Gallant (1989)
• Travelling Ladies (1992)
• Rest Harrow (1992)
• The Green Library (1996, nominated for the 1996 Governor General's Awards)
• Marrying the Sea (1998)
• Kyiv, of Two Lands: New Visions (1998, anthology co-edited with Solemea Pavlychko)
• Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family (1998)

[edit] Honours

• 2006, Greifswald Canadian Studies Fellow in Residence, University of Greifswald, Germany

[edit] External links

• Interview, online from CBC Words at Large

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