Keith Garebian Explained

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. 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,^[1] and the 2013 Saroyan Medal for cultural contributions by the Armenian diaspora.^[2] He is a four-time winner for the Mississauga Art Award for Writing.^[3]

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.^[4]

Bibliography

Poetry

• Scan: Cancer Poems (2021)^[5]
• 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)^[6]
• William Hutt: Masks and Faces (Mosaic, 1995)
• Pain: Journeys Around My Parents (Mosaic, 2000)^[7]
• The Making of ‘Guys and Dolls’ (Mosaic, 2003)
• The Making of 'Cabaret (Oxford University Press, 2011)^[8]
• The 1978 Stratford Festival^[9] (1978)

External links

• Stage and Page web site of Keith Garebian

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chin . Joseph . November 7, 2014 . Garebian Wins Poetry Awards .
2. Web site: 2013-07-23 . Keith Garebian Awarded the Prestigious William Saroyan Medal by the Minister of Diaspora in Armenia . 2023-11-12 . horizonweekly.ca . en-US.
3. Web site: Bakhchinyan . Artsvi . 2021-08-05 . Keith Garebian: Relationships between His Life and the Forces of History . 2023-11-14 . The Armenian Mirror-Spectator . en-US.
4. Web site: Keith Garebian – Asian Heritage in Canada . 2023-11-14 . Toronto Metropolitan University library . en-US.
5. Web site: Marchand . Blaine . 2021-10-03 . Review of Keith Garebian's "Scan: Cancer Poems" . 2023-11-20 . FreeFall Magazine . en-US.
6. Book: Crawford, Fred D. . Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies . 1995-06-21 . Penn State Press . 978-0-271-01422-7 . en.
7. Web site: 2004-02-12 . Pain: Journeys Around My Parents - Quill and Quire . 2023-11-20 . Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews . en.
8. Joyce . Valerie . 2015 . The Making of Cabaret by Keith Garebian (review) . Theatre History Studies . 34 . 1 . 125–127 . 10.1353/ths.2015.0000 . 194173405 . 2166-9953.
9. Garebian . Keith . Winter 1978–79 . Review Article: The 1978 Stratford Festival . Journal of Canadian Studies . 13 . 4 . 109–119. 10.3138/jcs.13.4.109 .