Christopher Kelen
Christopher "Kit" Kelen (born 17 December 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian academic, writer, and artist. 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".
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Christopher Kelen
- Born
- 17 December 1958
- Birthplace
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Education
- University of Sydney University of Western Sydney
- Nationality
- Australia.
- Occupation
- novelist, poet, university teacher, writer, literary theorist and scholar of english.
- Fields
- creative writing and literature.
- Honours
- Anne Elder Award and Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
- Languages
- English.
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In 1992, "The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees" won an Anne Elder Award. Kelen was Writer-in-Residence for the Australia Council at the B. Whiting Library in Rome in 1996. For many years, Kelen taught Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Macau. 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. In 2024, he won the Newcastle Poetry Prize.
Christopher Kelen studied at University of Sydney and Western Sydney University. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is creative writing and literature. Distinctions recorded are Anne Elder Award and Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
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• Pen Name — Kit Kelen • Born — 17 December 1958 • Birthplace — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Relatives — István Kelen (father) • Education — University of Sydney University of Western Sydney • Website — kitkelen.com • Honorific Suffix — FRSN
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