Kristjana Gunnars

Kristjana Gunnars is a Canadian writer who was born in Iceland.

She is best known for her post-modern novels, including The Prowler and The Substance of Forgetting, as well as a prolific body of poetry and experimental writing.

She taught creative writing at the University of Alberta from 1991 to 2004.

• Bibliography of Works by Kristjana Gunnars
• Bibliography of Works about Kristjana Gunnars
• Biography of Kristjana Gunnars, by Monique Tschofen (Ryerson University)
• “With A Ruse of Heart and Language”: Movements of Thought in Gunnars’s Writing, by Monique Tschofen
• “Kristjana Gunnars. Essays on Her Works”, by Monique Tschofen
• Learning to Loathe: How Self-Hatred Hinders Empowerment in Three Works by Ricci, Gunners and van Herk, by Andrea Belcham
• “Aritha Van Herk, Kristiana Gunnars and Nino Ricci: Observers and Subjects of the Ethnic Gaze”, by Sonia Wilson