Keith Garebian
{{Short description|Canadian critic, biographer and poet}}
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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 earned his PhD from Queen's University on Canadian and Commonwealth Literature.{{cn|date=January 2024}} 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,{{Cite web |last=Chin |first=Joseph |date=November 7, 2014 |title=Garebian Wins Poetry Awards |url=http://www7.mississauga.ca/documents/library/biographies/Scans/Peel%20Biography%20Scans%20-%20G/Garebian,%20Keith%20MN%2020141107.pdf}} and the 2013 Saroyan Medal for cultural contributions by the Armenian diaspora.{{Cite web |date=2013-07-23 |title=Keith Garebian Awarded the Prestigious William Saroyan Medal by the Minister of Diaspora in Armenia |url=https://horizonweekly.ca/en/13250-2/,%20https://horizonweekly.ca/en/13250-2/ |access-date=2023-11-12 |website=horizonweekly.ca |language=en-US}} He is a four-time winner for the Mississauga Art Award for Writing.{{Cite web |last=Bakhchinyan |first=Artsvi |date=2021-08-05 |title=Keith Garebian: Relationships between His Life and the Forces of History |url=https://mirrorspectator.com/2021/08/05/keith-garebian-relationships-between-his-life-and-the-forces-of-history/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=The Armenian Mirror-Spectator |language=en-US}}
As a critic, Garebian 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.{{Cite web |title=Keith Garebian – Asian Heritage in Canada |url=https://library.torontomu.ca/asianheritage/authors/garebian/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=Toronto Metropolitan University library |language=en-US}}
Bibliography
= Poetry =
- Scan: Cancer Poems (2021){{Cite web |last=Marchand |first=Blaine |date=2021-10-03 |title=Review of Keith Garebian's "Scan: Cancer Poems" |url=https://freefallmagazine.ca/review-of-keith-garebian-scan/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=FreeFall Magazine |language=en-US}}
- 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 =
- 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){{Cite book |last=Crawford |first=Fred D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ysk8ML7im0C&dq=%22Keith+Garebian%22&pg=PA251 |title=Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies |date=1995-06-21 |publisher=Penn State Press |isbn=978-0-271-01422-7 |language=en}}
- William Hutt: Masks and Faces (Mosaic, 1995)
- Pain: Journeys Around My Parents (Mosaic, 2000){{Cite web |date=2004-02-12 |title=Pain: Journeys Around My Parents - Quill and Quire |url=https://quillandquire.com/review/pain-journeys-around-my-parents/ |access-date=2023-11-20 |website=Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews |language=en}}
- The Making of ‘Guys and Dolls’ (Mosaic, 2003)
- The Making of 'Cabaret' (Oxford University Press, 2011){{Cite journal |last=Joyce |first=Valerie |date=2015 |title=The Making of Cabaret by Keith Garebian (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/181/article/604769 |journal=Theatre History Studies |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=125–127 |doi=10.1353/ths.2015.0000 |s2cid=194173405 |issn=2166-9953}}
- The 1978 Stratford Festival{{Cite journal |last=Garebian |first=Keith |date=Winter 1978–79 |title=Review Article: The 1978 Stratford Festival |url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jcs.13.4.109?journalCode=jcs |journal=Journal of Canadian Studies |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=109–119|doi=10.3138/jcs.13.4.109 }} (1978)
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External links
- [http://www.stageandpage.com/ Stage and Page web site of Keith Garebian]
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Category:21st-century Canadian poets
Category:Canadian satirical poets