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Name
  
Robert Kroetsch


Role
  
Novelist

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Died
  
June 21, 2011, Alberta, Canada

Education
  
Middlebury College, McGill University, University of Alberta

Awards
  
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

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Books
  
The Studhorse Man, The man from the creeks, Seed Catalogue, What the crow said, Gone Indian

Robert kroetsch won the u of as distinguished alumni award in 2003


Robert Kroetsch, OC (June 26, 1927 – June 21, 2011) was a Canadian novelist, poet and non-fiction writer. 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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He was born in Heisler, Alberta. 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. In 2004 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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Robert Kroetsch Wikipedia