Robert Kroetsch
Canadian novelist, poet and nonfiction writer (1927 – 2011) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Paul Kroetsch OC (June 26, 1927 – June 21, 2011)[1] was a Canadian novelist, poet and nonfiction writer. In his fiction and critical essays, as well as in the journal he co-founded, boundary 2, he was an influential figure in Canada in introducing ideas about postmodernism.[2]
He was born in Heisler, Alberta.[2] He began his academic career at Binghamton University (State University of New York); after returning to Canada in the mid-1970s he taught at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Kroetsch spent several years in Victoria, British Columbia, before returning to Winnipeg, then to retirement in Alberta, where he continued to write. In 2004 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[2]