Keith Garebian (born 1943) is a Canadian critic, biographer, and poet. He was born in Bombay, India, to an Armenian father and Anglo-Indian mother, and immigrated to Canada in 1961. He earned his PhD from Queen's University on Canadian and Commonwealth Literature.[citation needed] He has taught part-time at McGill University, Concordia University and Trent University. He has won awards for his poetry and writing, including the 2014 Poetry Award of the Surrey International Writers Conference,[1] and the 2013 Saroyan Medal for cultural contributions by the Armenian diaspora.[2] He is a four-time winner for the Mississauga Art Award for Writing.[3]
As a critic he has written for The Globe and Mail. As of 2020, he lives in Mississauga, Ontario, where he is named as critic-at-large by the Mississauga Library System to write theater and book reviews.[4]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Scan: Cancer Poems (2021)[5]
- Against Forgetting (2019)
- Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems (2009)
- Samson’s Hair and Other Satiric Fantasies (Micro Prose, 2004)
- Reservoir of Ancestors (Mosaic, 2003)
Reviews and Non-fiction
- Hugh Hood (Twayne, 1983)
- Leon Rooke and His Works (ECW, 1989)
- A Well-Bred Muse: Selected Theatre Writings 1978-1988 (Mosaic, 1991)
- George Bernard Shaw and Christopher Newton: Explorations of Shavian Theatre (Mosaic, 1993)[6]
- William Hutt: Masks and Faces (Mosaic, 1995)
- Pain: Journeys Around My Parents (Mosaic, 2000)[7]
- The Making of ‘Guys and Dolls’ (Mosaic, 2003)
- The Making of 'Cabaret' (Oxford University Press, 2011)[8]
- The 1978 Stratford Festival[9] (1978)
References
- ^ Chin, Joseph (November 7, 2014). "Garebian Wins Poetry Awards" (PDF).
- ^ "Keith Garebian Awarded the Prestigious William Saroyan Medal by the Minister of Diaspora in Armenia". horizonweekly.ca. 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
- ^ Bakhchinyan, Artsvi (2021-08-05). "Keith Garebian: Relationships between His Life and the Forces of History". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
- ^ "Keith Garebian – Asian Heritage in Canada". Toronto Metropolitan University library. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
- ^ Marchand, Blaine (2021-10-03). "Review of Keith Garebian's "Scan: Cancer Poems"". FreeFall Magazine. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
- ^ Crawford, Fred D. (1995-06-21). Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-01422-7.
- ^ "Pain: Journeys Around My Parents - Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. 2004-02-12. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
- ^ Joyce, Valerie (2015). "The Making of Cabaret by Keith Garebian (review)". Theatre History Studies. 34 (1): 125–127. doi:10.1353/ths.2015.0000. ISSN 2166-9953. S2CID 194173405.
- ^ Garebian, Keith (Winter 1978–79). "Review Article: The 1978 Stratford Festival". Journal of Canadian Studies. 13 (4): 109–119. doi:10.3138/jcs.13.4.109.
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