Robert Kroetsch

Nicole Markotic (University of Windsor)

Ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 26 Jun 1927
Died 21 Jun 2011
Activity 1947-2011

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Activities

Primary

Literary Critic/ Historian
Novelist
Poet

Resources

Kroetsch's Works

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Storyteller extraordinaire, Canadian writer Robert Kroetsch regaled readers with his wild and impossible tales, his exuberant poetry, and his insightful scrutiny of contemporary writing and community life. Says Michael Ondaatje: “Robert Kroetsch was the great force out of the west. He and Rudy Wiebe together were a bolt of energy for the Canadian novel at a time when it really, really needed it” (qtd. in Martin). Publishing his first book, the novel

But We Are Exiles

, when he was 38 (quickly followed by

The Words of My Roaring

a year later), Kroetsch burst onto the Canadian literary scene with writing that shook readers up, eliciting responses of astonishment, pleasure, apprehension, and admiration. Kroetsch, says Ann Mandel, “arrives by coming first” (55). Setting his fiction and…

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Citation: Markotic, Nicole. "Robert Kroetsch". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 December 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2563, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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