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Professor Christopher (Kit) Kelen FRSN (born 17 December 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian academic, writer, and artist. He is the younger son of Hungarian-born writer Stephen Kelen.

Kelen is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry and two novels. He has been published widely since the mid-1970s and in 1988 won an ABA/ABC bicentennial award with his poem "Views from Pinchgut".[1]

In 1992, "The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees" won an Anne Elder Award.[2] Kelen was Writer-in-Residence for the Australia Council at the B. R. Whiting Library in Rome in 1996.[2]

For many years, Kelen taught Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Macau.[3] As of 2018, he lived mainly on Worimi country on the NSW north coast.[4]

Kelen has published several book-length scholarly works about poetry, including Poetry, Consciousness and Community (2009), City of Poets (2009), Anthem Quality (2014) and Children, Animals and Poetry - Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism (2022).

Kelen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2019.[5]

Bibliography

Poetry

  • The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees (1992)
  • Green Lizard Manifesto (1997)
  • Möbius (1998)
  • Republics (2000)
  • New Territories (2003)
  • Eight Days in Lhasa (2006)
  • A Map of the Seasons (2006)
  • Dredging the Delta (2007)
  • After Meng Jiao (2008)
  • China Years (2011)
  • Pictures of Nothing at All (2014)
  • Scavengers' Season (2014)
  • As to the Ladders of Whichway (2015)
  • A Pocket Kit (2) (2015)
  • Poor Man's Coat (2018)
  • Book of Mother (2022)
  • Bung Mazes (2022)

Novels

  • Punk's Travels (1980)
  • A Wager with the Gods (2006)

References

  1. ^ Kelen, Christopher, AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, 20 November 2007.
  2. ^ a b TextJournal Oct. 98
  3. ^ "Department of English - Prof. Christopher KELEN". University of Macau. Retrieved 27 January 2010.
  4. ^ About Kit Kelen, kitkelen.com, accessed 13-Nov-2020
  5. ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society of NSW (K)". Royal Society of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 2 April 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
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