Keith Garebian
Illustration — Garebian at Glad Day Bookshop, November 2023 Keith Garebian (born 1943) is a Canadian critic, biographer, and poet. He earned his PhD from Queen's University on Canadian and Commonwealth Literature. He has taught part-time at McGill University, Concordia University and Trent University.
Keith Garebian

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- 1943
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- poet
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- English
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He has won awards for his poetry and writing, including the 2014 Poetry Award of the Surrey International Writers Conference, and the 2013 Saroyan Medal for cultural contributions by the Armenian diaspora. He is a four-time winner for the Mississauga Art Award for Writing.
• Scan: Cancer Poems (2021) • Against Forgetting (2019) • Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems (2009) • Samson’s Hair and Other Satiric Fantasies (Micro Prose, 2004) • Reservoir of Ancestors (Mosaic, 2003)
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• 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) • William Hutt: Masks and Faces (Mosaic, 1995) • The Making of 'West Side Story (Mosaic, 1995) • Pain: Journeys Around My Parents (Mosaic, 2000) • The Making of ‘Guys and Dolls’ (Mosaic, 2003) • The Making of 'Cabaret (Oxford University Press, 2011) • The 1978 Stratford Festival (1978)
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- 1.Chin, Joseph. Garebian Wins Poetry Awards. November 7, 2014.
- 2.Keith Garebian Awarded the Prestigious William Saroyan Medal by the Minister of Diaspora in Armenia. horizonweekly.ca. October 2025.
- 3.Bakhchinyan, Artsvi. Keith Garebian: Relationships between His Life and the Forces of History. The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. 2021-08-05.
- 4.Keith Garebian – Asian Heritage in Canada. Toronto Metropolitan University library.
- 5.Marchand, Blaine. Review of Keith Garebian's "Scan: Cancer Poems". FreeFall Magazine. 2021-10-03.
- 6.Crawford, Fred D. Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies. Penn State Press. 1995-06-21. 978-0-271-01422-7.
- 7.Pain: Journeys Around My Parents - Quill and Quire. Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. 2004-02-12.
- 8.Joyce, Valerie. The Making of Cabaret by Keith Garebian (review). Theatre History Studies. 34. 1. 125–127. 2015. 2166-9953.
- 9.Garebian, Keith. Review Article: The 1978 Stratford Festival. Journal of Canadian Studies. 13. 4. 109–119. Winter 1978–79. 10.3138/jcs.13.4.109.
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