by Monique Tschofen
Adam, Ian. "Illywhacker and The Prowler: Settler Society Response to Ideas of History." Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 12 (1994): 1-10.
Althof, Rolf. "Kristjana Gunnars’s Alternative Realities: The Page as Stage for Narrative Paradoxes." Interplays: Works and Words of Writers and Critics. Ed. R.Althof, R. von Antropoff and K.P Muller. St. John’s Newfoundland: Breakwater, 1994. 220-230.
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Baldvinsson, Gardar. "Ord og Ferdatöskur." Jon a Baegisa. Ed. Sigurdur A. Magnusson. No. 1, 1997. 29-46.
Brydon, Diana. "The White Inuit Speaks: Contamination as Literary Strategy." Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism. Ed. Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin. Calgary: U of Calgary P, 1990. 191-203.
Buss, Helen. Mapping Our Selves: Canadian Women’s Autobiography in English. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1993. 197-99.
Coleman, Daniel. "Gender, Narrative, and Desire in The Prowler." Textual Studies in Canada / Etudes Textuelles au Canada 4 (1994): 16-27.
Cook, Méira. "Love and Other Unofficial Stories: Reading Kristjana Gunnars." Open Letter 10.2 (1998): 19-30.
Darias Beautell, Eva. "Memory, Experience and Difference in the Works of Some Contemporary Canadian Women Writers." The Guises of Canadian Diversity: New European Perspectives - Les Masques de la diversité: nouvelles perspectives européennes. Ed. Serge Jaumain and Marc Maufort. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 143-150.
Fairbanks, Carol. Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.
Gheorghe, Christina. "Intertextual Notes in a Metafictional Autobiography: The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars." Scandinavian Canadian Studies Etudes Scandinaves au Canada 4 (1991): 43-49.
Gross, Konrad. "The Burden of Memory: Ethnic Literature in Germany and Canada." Multiculturalism in North America and Europe. Ed. Hans Braun and Wolfgang Klooss. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1995. 115-131.
Gudunsteinsdottir, Gudrun. "Wakepick Weavers: Laura G. Salverson and Kristjana Gunnars." Canada and the Nordic Countries. Ed. Jørn Carlsen. Denmark: U of Aarhus, 1995.
Hjartarson, Paul. "Transformation of the ‘I’: Self and Community in the Poetry of Kristjana Gunnars." Canada and the Nordic Countries. Ed. Jørn Carlsen and Bengt Streijffert. Vol. 2 of The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series. Lund: Lund UP, Chartwell Bratt, 1988. 123-37.
Keahey, Deborah. Making it Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature. U Manitoba P, 1998.
Keefer, Janice Kulyk. "The Prowler." Brick: A Literary Journal 51 (1995): 52-57.
Lane, Travis M. "Troll Turning: Poetic Voice in the Poetry of Kristjana Gunnars." Canadian Literature 105 (1985): 59-68.
Lent, John. "Staring into Snow: Subjectivity and Design in Kristjana Gunnars’ The Prowler." Recherches Anglaises et Nord Americaines 24 (1991): 103-15.
Lonnecke, Annette. Anglo-kanadische Autobiographien der Postmoderne: Radikale Formen der Selbstportratierung von John Glassco bis Kristjana Gunnars. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
McVey, Moray. "The Emergence of a Canadian Voice in the Settlement Poems of Kristjana Gunnars." Lögberg-Heimskringla 19 Sept. 1986: 8-10.
Neijmann, Daisy L. "‘Cracking the Boundaries’: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Canadian Literature." ‘The Third Solitude’: Canadian Minority Writing. Proceedings of ‘The Third Solitude’ Conference on Canadian Minority Writing. Guernica Editions [forthcoming in Spring 2002].
____. "Community and Identity in Icelandic-Canadian Literature." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 10 (1997): 53-75.
____. "Icelandic-Canadian Literature and Anglophone Minority Writing in Canada." World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma 73.2 (1999): 245-55.
____. The Icelandic Voice in Canadian Letters: The Contribution of Icelandic-Canadian Writers to Canadian Literature. Ottawa: Carleton, 1997.
Owens, Judith. "‘Drawing / In’: Wholeness and Dislocation in the Work of Kristjana Gunnars." Contemporary Manitoba Writers: New Critical Studies. Ed. Kenneth James Hughes. Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1990. 64-78.
Padolsky, Enoch. "‘Olga in Wonderland’: Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing and Post-colonial Theory." Canadian Ethnic Studies 28.3 (1996): 16 -29.
Porter, J.S. "Kristjana Gunnars & the Book of Small." Antigonish Review 113 (1998): 77-84. Rpt. in Spirit Book Word: An Inquiry into Literature and Spirituality by J.S. Porter. Toronto: Novalis, 2002.
Rosica, Karen. "How to Read Kristjana Gunnars." Bloomsbury Review 20.5 (2000): 3-4.
Verduyn, Christl. "Memory Work / Migrant Writing Mediating Me / Moi: Van Herk, Gunnars, Ltaif, Bosco." Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women’s Writing. Ed. Coomi S. Vevaina and Barbara Godard. New Delhi: Creative, 1996. 244-53.
Woods, Gurli A. "The Space in the Margins: Suzanne Brogger’s No Man’s Land: Kristjana Gunnars’ The Substance of Forgetting and Aritha Van Herk’s Places Far from Ellesmere." Transcultural Trends: Essays in Canadian Literature and Society. Ed. Mari Peepre-Bordessa. Vol. 11 of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series. Lund: Lund University Press, 1994. 111-125.
Zimmermann, Jutta. Metafiktion im anglokanadischen Roman der Gegenwart. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1996.
Casey, Jane. "An Interview with Kristjana Gunnars." Contemporary Verse Two 8.3 (1984): 36-39.
Demchuk, David. "‘Holding Two Ropes’: Interview with Kristjana Gunnars." Writers News Manitoba / Prairie Fire 5.2-3 (1984): 32-37.
Eagle, Jennifer. "Myriads of Stars: an Interview with Kristjana Gunnars." Prairie Fire 15.1 (1994): 22-26.
Gheorghe, Cristina. "Interview with Kristjana Gunnars about The Prowler." Scandinavian Canadian Studies Etudes Scandinaves au Canada 4 (1991): 51-59.
Magnusson, Sigurdur A. "Islensk skaldkona i Kanada." Tjodlif [Reykjavik] 6.4 (Apr. 1990): 28-32.
Murphy, Paul. "Kristjana Gunnars: Voicing the Silence." Gateway (University of Alberta). 2 Nov. 1989: 8-9.
Líndal, Tryggvi V. "Gagnrýnendur - eins og tómt skothylki." Interview with Kristjana Gunnars (in Icelandic). Morgunbla x i x [Reykjavík, Iceland] 16 Aug. 1981: 20.
Valgardson, W.D. "Interview with Kristjana Gunnars." Lögberg-Heimskringla 16 Jan. 1981: 5, 8.
Williamson, Janice. "In That Gap Where One Searches, the Muse Hangs Around...." Breaking the Silence: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers. Ed. Janice Williamson. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992. 95-109.
Brandt, Di. "The Unspeakableness of Love." Rev. of Exiles Among You, by Kristjana Gunnars, Clay Birds, by Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen and Beyond My Keeping, by Elizabeth Philips. Canadian Literature 155 (1997): 184-87.
Brown, Russel. "New Poets and Old Stories." Rev. of One-Eyed Moon Maps and Settlement Poems 1 by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Forum 61.715 (Feb. 1982): 37-8.
Conway, Rosalind Eve. "History Made to Scan." Rev. of Settlement Poems by Kristjana Gunnars. Books in Canada 9 (1980): 13-14.
Dales, Janice. "Creating Mythologies." Rev. of Settlement Poems 2 by Kristjana Gunnars. Writers’ News Manitoba / Prairie Fire 3.3 (1981): n.p.
Daurio, Beverley. Rev. of Carnival Of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars. Poetry Canada Review 11.3 (1990): 24-25.
Fahner, Kim. Rev. of Exiles Among You by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Book Review Annual 25 (1999): 227.
Faulkner, Paul. Rev. of The Night Workers of Ragnarök by Kristjana Gunnars. Quarry 36.2 (1987): 116-117.
Harry, Margaret. "Empty and Unnamed: Settlement Poems from Western Canada." Rev. of Settlement Poems 1 and Wake-Pick Poems by Kristjana Gunnars. The Fiddlehead 135 (1983): 115-118.
Hatch, Ronald B. Rev of Carnival Of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars. University of Toronto Quarterly 60.1 (1990): 31.
Hjartarson, Paul. Rev. of The Night Workers of Ragnarök by Kristjana Gunnars. Journal of Canadian Poetry 2 (1987): 40-46.
Johnston, George. "Icelandic Rhythms." Rev. of One-Eyed Moon Maps and Settlements Poems 1 & 2 by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 92 (1982): 73-5.
Kolybaba, Kathie. Rev. of Settlement Poems I and II and Wake-Pick Poems by Kristjana Gunnars. Arts Manitoba 2.2 (1983): 57.
Kostjuk, Dwight. Rev. of Settlement Poems by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Ethnic Studies 14.2 (1983): 156-58.
Krisjansson, Gustaf. Rev. of Settlement Poems by Kristjana Gunnars. The Icelandic Canadian 39.2 (1980): 40-41.
Lane, M. Travis. Rev. of Instar, Poems and Stories by Anne Szumigalski and The Night Workers of Ragnarök by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 111 (1986): 180-182.
____. "Priming the Pump: How do you Start a Poem?" Rev. of Exiles Among You by Kristjana Gunnars. The Fiddlehead (1999): 170-74.
Lemay, Shawna. "Reconnecting with Home." Rev. of Silence of the Country by Kristjana Gunnars. Edmonton Journal 30 June 2002: D12.
Lynch, Deidre. Rev. of Carnival Of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars. Journal of Canadian Poetry 6 (1991): 63-68.
McGrath, Wendy. "Cosmic Grief a Joy." Rev. of Exiles Among You by Kristjana Gunnars. The Edmonton Journal 11 Aug. 1996: C6.
Matthiasson, John S. Rev. of Settlement Poems 2 by Kristjana Gunnars. The Icelandic Canadian (Summer 1981): 43-4.
Mireau, Maurice. "Bold Poets Keep Surprising Readers." Rev. of Carnival of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars. Lögberg Heimskringla 2 Feb. 1990: 2.
Nodelman, Perry. "Bugs, Guts and Poetry." Rev. of One-Eyed Moon Maps and Settlement Poems 1 by Kristjana Gunnars. Winnipeg Free Press 29 Nov. 1980: 2.
Scobie, Stephen. "Kristjana Gunnars." Review of The Night Workers of Ragnarök by Kristjana Gunnars. Malahat Review 73 (1986): 125.
Seiferling, Mary. "Piecemeal Birth." Rev. of Settlement Poems 1 by Kristjana Gunnars. Writers’ News. Manitoba / Prairie Fire 3.2 (1981): n.p.
Suknasky, Andrew. Review of One-Eyed Moon-Maps and Settlement Poems 1 and 2 by Kristjana Gunnars. Brick (1982): 5-56.
Thorpe, Michael. Rev. of Carnival of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars. University of Toronto Quarterly 60.1 (1990): 31.
Tihanyi, Eva. "Theme and / or Non-Theme." Rev. of The Nightworkers of Ragnarok by Kristjana Gunnars. Waves 14.4 (1986) 84-86.
Valgardson, W. Rev. of Settlement Poems 1 and One-Eyed Moon Maps by Kristjana Gunnars. Iceland Review Apr. 1980: 11-12.
Ware, Martin. "Absence and Presence." Rev. of Creating the Country by Rhona McAdam, Carnival of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars, and The Look-Out Tower by Geoffrey Ursell. Canadian Literature 130 (1991): 173-175.
Anthony, Elizabeth. Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. Books In Canada 20.6 (1991): 36. Arnason, David. "Dislocations." Rev. of The Axes’s Edge. Prairie Fire 5.2 (1984): 109-10.
Attridge, Robert. Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. NeWest Review 17.6 (1992): 37-38.
Baldvinsson, Gardar. "Cold War." Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 185 (1992): 157-58.
Clarke, Margaret. "Reading Autobiographically." Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars and Journey with my Selves by Dorothy Livesay. Prairie Fire 14 (1993): 138-142.
Cox, Catherine. Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Materials 19.6 (1991): 360.
Craig, T.L. Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. University of Toronto Quarterly 62.1 (1992): 25-26.
Daurio, Beverly. Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Cross Canada Writers’ Quarterly 12.1 (1990): 27.
Fitzgerald, Judith. "Short but Sweet." Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Globe and Mail 31 Mar. 1984: E21.
Garebian, Keith. Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. Quill & Quire 57.4 (1991): 33.
Gillese, T. Virginia. "Isolation as Existence." Rev. of Guest House & Other Stories by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 145 (1995): 131-3.
Givner, Joan. "Strangers in a Strange Land." Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Books in Canada Mar. 1984: 16-17.
Goede, William. "Little Movies and Ground Zero Writing." Rev. of The Memory Garden of Miguel Carranza by Marwan Hassan and Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. Event 21.1 (1992): 109-112.
Gugeler, Joy. "Innovative Sacrifices of Art for Artifice." Rev. of The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars and Word of Mouth by M.A.C. Farrant. Vancouver Sun 22 Mar. 1997: G7.
Haag, Stefan. "Melancholy Memories." Rev. of The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 156 (1998): 138-9.
Heble, Ajay. Rev. of The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars. University of Toronto Quarterly 67.1 (1997-98): 9.
Hildebradt, Gloria. Rev. of Crossing the River: Essays in Honour of Margaret Laurence by Kristjana Gunnars and Margaret Laurence: An Appreciation by Christl Verduyn. Prairie Fire 10.3 (1989): 74-77.
Hjartarson, Paul. Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Ethnic Studies 17.3 (1985): 159-60.
Jones, Daniel. Rev. The Guest House and Other Stories by Kristjana Gunnars. Books In Canada 22.1 (1993): 45.
____. "Filling in the Details." Rev. of The Substance of Forgetting by Kristjana Gunnars. Books in Canada 22.1 (1993): 45.
Kenyon, Michael. Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Malahat Review 91 (1990): 100.
Lemay, Shawna. Rev. of The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars. Folio [ Edmonton ] 21 Mar. 1991: 9
McIlroy, Randal. Rev. of Night Train to Nykøbing by Kristjana Gunnars. Prairie Fire 20.1 (1999): 144-45.
McMaster, Geoff. "Gunnars’ Night Train a Mournful Journey Towards Self-determination." Folio [Edmonton] 10 Dec. 1998.
MacKinley-Hay, Linda. Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Book Review Annual 10 (1984): 268.
Maclean, Kathryn. Rev. of The Substance of Forgetting by Kristjana Gunnars. Prairie Fire 15.1 (1994): 152-153.
Marchand, Philip. "Winter Tales are Sparse and True." Rev. of The Guest House and Other Stories by Kristjana Gunnars. The Toronto Star 9 Jan. 1993: F13.
Matyas, Cathy. "Invoking the Dead." Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Forum 64.740 (Jun/ Jul 1984): 35-6.
Morton, Colin. Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Quarry 40.3 (1991): 112-114.
Moss, John. "Kristjana Gunnars’s The Prowler." Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Forum 69.792 (Sept. 1990): 28
O’Flynn, Siobhan. "Going off the Rails." Rev. of Night Train to Nykøbing. Essays on Canadian Writing 67 (1999): 174-180.
Parr, John. "Icelandic-born poet turns to short stories." Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Toronto Star 4 Dec. 1983: G8.
Schermbrucker, Bill. "Precision Words, Precision Works." Rev. of Night Train to Nykøbing by Kristjana Gunnars. Event 28.3 (1999-2000): 146-50.
Scobie, Stephen. "Away From Zero." Rev. of Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars. Canadian Literature 135 (1992): 194-196.
Sigurdson, Norman. "Short Stories Chronicle the Immigrant Experience." Rev. of The Axe’s Edge by Kristjana Gunnars. Winnipeg Free Press 11 Feb. 1984: 49.
Szabados, Bela. Rev. of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars. Prairie Fire 10.4 (1989-1990): 51-54.
Szabados, Bela and Joan Givner. "Two Readers Reading: The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars." Wascana Review 24.1 (1989): 80-87.
Tenove, Chris. "Cutting Connections: A Destination with No Emotional Debts to Pay." Rev. of Night Train to Nykøbing. NeWest Review 24.4 (1998-1999 ): 25-6.
Thorpe, Micheal. Rev. of The Prowler and Unexpected Fictions: New Icelandic Canadian Writing by Kristjana Gunnars. University of Toronto Quarterly 60.1 (1990): 5-6.
Van Luven, Lynne. "Contemporary Voices Strong in Polished Collages." Rev. of The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust by Kristjana Gunnars and Taken by Daphne Marlatt. The Edmonton Journal 9 Feb. 1997: C4.
Wolf, Kirsten. "Icelandic-Canadian Literature: Problems in Generic Classification." Rev. Article of Stephan G. Stephansson: Selected Prose & Poetry, Trans. Kristjana Gunnars, and Unexpected Fictions. Ed. Kristjana Gunnars. Scandinavian Studies 64.3 (1992): 439-53.
Bamber, Candace Marie. Voices in my Head: A Reader’s Reflections on Works by Gunnars, Penelope and Rich. M.A. Thesis. U of Alberta, 1993.
Bricker, Margaret S. Feminism, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Canadian Writing by Women (Daphne Marlatt, Aritha van Herk, Kristjana Gunnars). M.A. Thesis. Carleton U, 1996.
Budd, Adam Russell. Playing Within the Discipline: Dynamics of Authorship in Three Canadian Autobiographies. M.A. Thesis. University of Victoria, 1995.
Cook, Meira. Speaking in Tongues: Contemporary Canadian Love Poetry by Women. Ph.D. Dissertation. U of Manitoba, 1998.
Libin, Mark Ira. Commencement Exercises: Toward Beginnings in English-Canadian Literature. Ph.D. Dissertation. U of Manitoba, 1999.
Malena, Anne. "The Prowler" de Kristjana Gunnars: Traduction et Commentaire. M.A. Thesis. McMaster U, 1991.
Neijmann, Daisy. Icelandic Canadian Literature. Ph.D. Dissertation. Free U of Amsterdam, Holland, 1994.
Pálsdóttir, Anna Hei x a. In the Trail of Ghosts: Kristjana Gunnars’ Improvisations on History in Settlement Poems 1 and 2 and The Axe’s Edge. B.A. Thesis. U of Iceland. 1995.
1996: Alberta Writers’ Guild Best Poetry Award (Stephan G. Stephannson Award for Poetry) for Exiles Among You
1996: Alberta Writers’ Guild Best Fiction Award (George Bugnet Award for Fiction) for The Rose Garden
1995: Anne Malena’s translation, La maraude, of The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars is nominated for Governor General’s Award for Translation (English into French)
1991: Nominated for Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction for Zero Hour
1989: The McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year for The Prowler
1988: Runner-up, CBC Literary Prize for Poetry
Also: Ontario Arts Council Awards 1981, 1984; Manitoba Arts Council Awards 1983, 1985; Alberta Foundation for the Literary Arts 1986, 1987.
Published in Kristjana Gunnars: Essays on Her Works. Ed. Monique Tschofen. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2004.
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