Name Robert Kroetsch | Role Novelist | |
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Died June 21, 2011, Alberta, Canada Education Middlebury College, McGill University, University of Alberta People also search for Jon Paul Fiorentino, Douglas Barbour, James Bacque 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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- Robert kroetsch won the u of as distinguished alumni award in 2003
- A scattering of seeds the impossible home robert kroetsch and his german roots
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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.
A scattering of seeds the impossible home robert kroetsch and his german roots
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