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Christopher Kelen

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Pen name
  
Kit Kelen

Nationality
  
Australian

Name
  
Christopher Kelen


Born
  
17 December 1958 (age 65) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (
1958-12-17
)

Alma mater
  
University of Sydney University of Western Sydney

Professor Christopher (Kit) Kelen (born 17 December 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian academic, writer and artist currently residing in Macao, China. He is the younger son of Hungarian-born Australian soldier, author, playwright and journalist Stephen (Istvan) Kelen OAM (1912-2003) and the younger brother of Australian poet Stephen K. Kelen (b. 1956).

Professor Kelen is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry and two novels. He has been published widely since the mid-1970s, and in 1988 won an ABA/ABC bicentennial award with his poem "Views from Pinchgut".

In 1992 "The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees" won an Anne Elder Award. Kelen was Writer-in-Residence for the Australia Council at the B. R. Whiting Library in Rome in 1996.

Prof. Kelen currently teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Macau.

Prof. Kelen has published several book-length scholarly works about poetry, including "Poetry, Consciousness and Community" (2009), "City of Poets" (2009) and "Anthem Quality" (2014).

References

Christopher Kelen Wikipedia