Sunday, August 23, 2009
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About Me
- Kit Kelen
- Kit Kelen is a poet and painter, resident on Worimi lands, in the Myall Lakes of NSW, Australia. Published widely since the seventies, he has more than a dozen full length collections in English as well as translated books of poetry in Chinese (several), Portuguese (several), French, Italian, Spanish, Indonesian, Swedish, Norwegian, Filipino, Greek, Romanian and Esperanto. Kit’s latest volume of poetry in English is Book of Mother, published by Puncher & Wattmann in 2022. Kit has shortlisted for and won poetry prizes since the eighties (an ABC/ Bicentennial Award). His first book The Naming of the Harbour & the Trees won an Anne Elder in the nineties. In 2024 Kit Kelen was the winner of the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Macau, where he taught for many years, Kit Kelen is also a Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle and a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW. In 2017 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Malmö, in Sweden. Series Editor for Flying Islands Pocket Poets Series (with now more than one hundred volumes), Kit has mentored many poets and translators from various parts of the world.