Kristjana Gunnars

Kristjana Gunnars (born March 19, 1948, in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist. She immigrated to Canada in 1969. Her works explore, among other themes, the 19th century Icelandic settler experience in Canada's prairie provinces.

Novels

 * The Prowler (1989), winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
 * The Substance of Forgetting (1992)
 * Night Train to Nykobing (1998)

Short stories

 * The Guest House and Other Stories (1992)
 * Any Day But This (2004)

Poetry

 * One-eyed Moon Maps (1980)
 * Settlement Poems 1 (1980)
 * Settlement Poems 2 (1980)
 * Wake-pick Poems (1981)
 * The Axe's Edge (1983)
 * The Night Workers of Ragnorak (1985)
 * Exiles Among You (1996)
 * Carnival of Longing (1989)
 * Silence of the Country (2002)
 * Night Train to Nykøbing (2002)

Non-fiction

 * Zero Hour (1991)
 * The Rose Garden: Reading Marcel Proust (1996)
 * "Stranger at the Door " (2004)

Criticism

 * in German: Elisabeth Paleczek, Schreiben in einem anderen Land: Erinnerung, Gedächtnis und Identität in ausgewählten Werken Laura Goodman Salversons und Kristjana Gunnars'. AV Akademikerverlag, Riga 2013