Kristjana Gunnars Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Combines the genres of fiction and memoir-a narrative strategy for which Gunnars has become widely respected. Focusing on a woman whose life has beco
Kristjana Gunnars Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Combines the genres of fiction and memoir-a narrative strategy for which Gunnars has become widely respected. Focusing on a woman whose life has become a curious mix of reality and fiction, the novel responds to the issue of language and one's place in culture, provoking the essential question of what role literature plays in our lives.
Kristjana Gunnars is the author of five cross—generic prose books from Red Deer Press, including The Prowler and The Substance of Forgetting. She is also the author of several books of poetry, including Exiles Among You and Silence of the Country. Her books of short stories are The Axe's Edge and The Guest House. Gunnars has been a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Alberta since 1990, and is no living on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
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