You can edit almost every page by Creating an account. Otherwise, see the FAQ.

Keith Garebian

From EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki


Garebian at Glad Day Bookshop, November 2023

Keith Garebian (born 1943) is a Canadian critic, biographer, and poet. He was born in Bombay, India, to an Armenian father and Anglo-Indian mother, and immigrated to Canada in 1961. He got his PhD from Queen's University on Canadian and Commonwealth Literature.[1] He has taught part-time at McGill University, Concordia University and Trent University. He has won awards for his poetry and writing, including the 2014 Poetry Award of the Surrey International Writers Conference,[2] and the 2013 Saroyan Medal for cultural contributions by the Armenian diaspora.[3] He is a four-time winner for the Mississauga Art Award for Writing.[4]

As a critic he has written for The Globe and Mail. As of 2020, he lives in Mississauga, Ontario, where he is named as critic-at-large by the Mississauga Library System to write theater and book reviews.[5]

Bibliography[edit]

Poetry[edit]

  • Scan: Cancer Poems (2021)[6]
  • Against Forgetting (2019)
  • Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems (2009)
  • Samson’s Hair and Other Satiric Fantasies (Micro Prose, 2004)
  • Reservoir of Ancestors (Mosaic, 2003)

Reviews and Non-fiction[edit]

  • 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)[7]
  • William Hutt: Masks and Faces (Mosaic, 1995)
  • Pain: Journeys Around My Parents (Mosaic, 2000)[8]
  • The Making of ‘Guys and Dolls’ (Mosaic, 2003)
  • The Making of 'Cabaret' (Oxford University Press, 2011)[9]
  • The 1978 Stratford Festival[10] (1978)

References[edit]

  1. "TORONTO POETS - 5 QUESTIONS SERIES - KEITH GAREBIAN". The Toronto Quarterly. 2010-10-28. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  2. Chin, Joseph (7 November 2014). "Garebian Wins Poetry Awards" (PDF).
  3. "Keith Garebian Awarded the Prestigious William Saroyan Medal by the Minister of Diaspora in Armenia". horizonweekly.ca. 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2023-11-12.
  4. Bakhchinyan, Artsvi (2021-08-05). "Keith Garebian: Relationships between His Life and the Forces of History". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  5. "Keith Garebian – Asian Heritage in Canada". Toronto Metropolitan University library. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  6. Marchand, Blaine (2021-10-03). "Review of Keith Garebian's "Scan: Cancer Poems"". FreeFall Magazine. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  7. Crawford, Fred D. (1995-06-21). Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies. Penn State Press. ISBN 978-0-271-01422-7. Search this book on
  8. "Pain: Journeys Around My Parents - Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. 2004-02-12. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  9. Joyce, Valerie (2015). "The Making of Cabaret by Keith Garebian (review)". Theatre History Studies. 34 (1): 125–127. ISSN 2166-9953.
  10. Garebian, Keith (Winter 1978–79). "Review Article: The 1978 Stratford Festival". Journal of Canadian Studies. 13 (4): 109–119.

External links[edit]


This article "Keith Garebian" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Keith Garebian. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.

Page kept on Wikipedia This page exists already on Wikipedia.