Background
He was born in Heisler, Alberta.
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- Novels But We Are Exiles - 1965 The Words of My Roaring - 1966 The Studhorse Man - 1969 (winner of the 1969 Governor General's Award for Fiction) Gone Indian - 1973 Badlands - 1975 What the Crow Said - 1978 Alibi - 1983 The Puppeteer - 1992 The Man from the Creeks - 1998Poetry The Stone Hammer Poems - 1975 The Ledger - 1975 Seed Catalogue - 1977 The Sad Phoenician - 1979 The Criminal Intensities of Love as Paradise - 1981 Field Notes: Collected Poems - 1981 Advice to My Friends - 1985 Excerpts from the Real Worlds: A Prose Poem in Ten Parts - 1986 Completed Field Notes: The Long Poems of Robert Kroetsch - 1989 The Hornbooks of Rita K - 2001 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) The Snowbird Poems - 2004 Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait - 2010 I'm Getting Old Now- unknown.
Robert Kroetsch
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Career
He began his academic career at Binghamton University (State University of New York). After returning to Canada in the mid-1970s he taught at the University of Manitoba. Kroetsch spent several years in Victoria, British Columbia, before returning to Winnipeg, then to retirement in Alberta, where he continued to write.
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Novels But We Are Exiles - 1965 The Words of My Roaring - 1966 The Studhorse Man - 1969 (winner of the 1969 Governor General's Award for Fiction) Gone Indian - 1973 Badlands - 1975 What the Crow Said - 1978 Alibi - 1983 The Puppeteer - 1992 The Man from the Creeks - 1998Poetry The Stone Hammer Poems - 1975 The Ledger - 1975 Seed Catalogue - 1977 The Sad Phoenician - 1979 The Criminal Intensities of Love as Paradise - 1981 Field Notes: Collected Poems - 1981 Advice to My Friends - 1985 Excerpts from the Real Worlds: A Prose Poem in Ten Parts - 1986 Completed Field Notes: The Long Poems of Robert Kroetsch - 1989 The Hornbooks of Rita K - 2001 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) The Snowbird Poems - 2004 Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait - 2010 I'm Getting Old Now- unknown.
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In his fiction and critical essays, as well as in the journal he co-founded, Boundary 2, he was an influential figure in Canada in introducing ideas about postmodernism.
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June 21, 2011 (aged 83)
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Officer of the Order of Canada Governor General's Award; Order of Canada
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.; The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields.; The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.