Robert Kroetsch

Robert Paul Kroetsch (1927-2011) was a Canadian novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer born in Heisler, Alberta. He gained prominence for his postmodern fiction and long poems, winning the Governor General's Award for Fiction for The Studhorse Man (1969) and earning nomination for Poetry with The Hornbooks of Rita K; his seminal long poem Seed Catalogue (1977) is iconic in Canadian literature. Kroetsch taught at universities including SUNY Binghamton and the University of Manitoba, co-founded the journal boundary 2, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004.