Kristjana Gunnars


Kristjana Gunnars is an Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist. She immigrated to Canada in 1969. Her work explores, among other themes, 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