Christopher Kelen

Christopher Kelen
Born	17 December 1958 (1958-12-17) (age 52) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Pen name	Kit Kelen
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	University of Sydney University of Western Sydney

Christopher (Kit) Kelen (born 17 December 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian writer and artist currently residing in Macao, China. Kelen is the author of nine volumes of poetry and two novels. Kelen has been published widely since the mid-1970s, and in 1988 won an ABA^{[disambiguation needed ]}/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]

Kelen currently teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Macau.^[3]

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)

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. http://www.umac.mo/fsh/de/kelen.htm. Retrieved 2010-01-27. 

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Name	Kelen, Christopher
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Date of birth	17 December 1958
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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