Kristjana Gunnars
Kristjana Gunnars is an Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist. She immigrated to Canada in 1969. Her works explore themes including the 19th-century Icelandic settler experience in Canada's prairie provinces.
Novels
- The Prowler, winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
- The Substance of Forgetting
- ''Night Train to Nykobing''
Short stories
- The Guest House and Other Stories
- Any Day But This''
Poetry
- One-eyed Moon Maps
- Settlement Poems 1
- Settlement Poems 2
- Wake-pick Poems
- The Axe's Edge
- The Night Workers of Ragnorak
- Exiles Among You
- Carnival of Longing
- Silence of the Country
- Night Train to Nykøbing''
Non-fiction
- Zero Hour
- The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust
- "Stranger at the Door "
Criticism
- in German: Elisabeth Paleczek, Schreiben in einem anderen Land: Erinnerung, Gedächtnis und Identität in ausgewählten Werken Laura Goodman Salversons und Kristjana Gunnars'. AV Akademikerverlag, Riga 2013