Robert Kroetsch

Robert Kroetsch was a teacher, editor and award-winning writer. Born in Heisler, Alberta, in 1927, Kroetsch grew up on his parents' farm and studied at the University of Alberta and the University of Iowa. He taught at the State University of New York, Binghamton, until the late 1970s and then returned to Canada, where he taught at the University of Calgary and the University of Manitoba from the 1970s through the 1990s. Kroetsch also spent time at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and many writer-in-residencies, where he powerfully influenced recent writing on the Canadian prairies and elsewhere. His generosity of spirit and openness to the new showed many authors new ways to pursue their own kinds of writing. In honour of both his writing and his contributions to Canadian culture in general, Kroetsch was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004. In 2011 he received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award. Robert Kroetsch died in a car accident outside of Edmonton, Alberta, in 2011.

Books by Robert Kroetsch

Post-glacial

Badlands

Too Bad

The Man from the Creeks

Post-Prairie

Writing the Terrain

Seed Catalogue

The Snowbird Poems

The Studhorse Man

Seed Catalogue

Gone Indian

The Hornbooks of Rita K

Completed Field Notes

The Words of My Roaring

What the Crow Said

The Temptations of Big Bear

Alberta

The Lovely Treachery of Words

Criminal Intensities Of Love As Paradise

Ledger, The