Janice Kulyk Keefer

Janice Kulyk Keefer (born 2 June 1952) is a Canadian novelist and poet. Of Ukrainian heritage, Kulyk Keefer often writes about the experiences of first-generation Canadian children of immigrants.

Biography

She was born as Janice Kulyk on 2 June 1952 in Toronto, Ontario. She studied English literature at the University of Toronto, graduating with a BA. She then studied at the University of Sussex, where she received an MPhil and D.Phil. Following this, Keefer became an assistant professor of English studies at Université Sainte-Anne in Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia. She is a specialist in Modernist literature. In her literary work on Ukrainian-Canadian identity, she "rejects simplified notions of multiculturalism" in preference to a Ukrainian transnational identity. , she is a professor of literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.

Her sister is the Canadian artist, Karen Kulyk and her son is the Decouple Podcast host Dr. Chris Keefer.

Awards and honours

1987 Governor General's Awards, nominated, Under Eastern Eyes

1988 Books in Canada First Novel Award, nominated, Constellations

1996 Governor General's Awards, nominated, The Green Library

1999 Marian Engel Award, lifetime achievement

2006 Greifswald Canadian Studies Fellow in Residence, University of Greifswald, Germany 2008 Kobzar Literary Award, The Ladies Lending Library

Bibliography

White of the Lesser Angels (1986) The Paris-Napoli Express (1986) Transfigurations (1987) Under Eastern Eyes: A Critical Reading of Maritime Fiction Constellations Reading Mavis Gallant (1989) Travelling Ladies (1992) Rest Harrow (1992) The Green Library Marrying the Sea (1998) Kyiv, of Two Lands: New Visions (1998, anthology co-edited with Solemea Pavlychko) Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family (1998) The Waste Zone (2002) Thieves (2004) The Ladies' Lending Library (2007) Foreign Relations (2010)

References

Further reading

External links

Interview, online from CBC Words at Large

Janice Kulyk Keeper at writerscafe.ca

The author at English-Canadian Writers, Athabasca University, by Deborah Saidero, University of Udine, 2016

1952 births

20th-century Canadian novelists

20th-century Canadian poets

21st-century Canadian novelists

21st-century Canadian poets

Canadian women poets

Canadian women novelists

Canadian people of Ukrainian descent

Living people

Poets from Toronto

Novelists from Toronto

Academic staff of the University of Greifswald

Canadian women academics

German women academics

Academic staff of the University of Guelph

20th-century Canadian women writers

21st-century Canadian women writers