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Janice Kulyk Keefer

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Janice Kulyk Keefer
BornJanice Kulyk
(1952-06-02) 2 June 1952 (age 72)
Toronto, Ontario
OccupationNovelist, poet
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversity of Toronto (BA)
University of Sussex (MPhil, D.Phil)
Notable awardsMarian Engel Award
Kobzar Literary Award

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

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She was born as Janice Kulyk on 2 June 1952 in Toronto, Ontario.[1] She studied English literature at the University of Toronto, graduating with a BA.[1] She then studied at the University of Sussex, where she received an MPhil and D.Phil.[1] Following this, Keefer became an assistant professor of English studies at Université Sainte-Anne in Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia.[1] She is a specialist in Modernist literature.[1] In her literary work on Ukrainian-Canadian identity, she "rejects simplified notions of multiculturalism"[1] in preference to a Ukrainian transnational identity.[1] As of 2013, she is a professor of literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.[1]

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

Awards and honours

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Bibliography

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Ledohowski, Lindy (28 February 2012). "Janice Kulyk Keefer". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved 26 April 2021.

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