Philip Kreiner

Philip Kreiner
Born	1950 Timmins, Ontario
Occupation	novelist, short story writer
Nationality	Canadian
Period	1980s
Notable works	People Like Us in a Place Like This

Philip Kreiner (born 1950 in Timmins, Ontario)^[1] is a Canadian writer, whose short story collection People Like Us in a Place Like This was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1983 Governor General's Awards.^[2]

He published two further novels, Heartlands^[3] and Contact Prints,^[4] in the 1980s. All three works were drawn from Kreiner's own experience as a teacher who had worked in Cree communities in far Northern Ontario and in Jamaica.^[5]

Works

• People Like Us in a Place Like This (1983, ISBN 978-0887504679)
• Heartlands (1984, ISBN 978-0887505577)
• Contact Prints (1987, ISBN 978-0770422486)

References

1. "A gritty tale of a teacher's turmoil among the Cree". The Globe and Mail, April 9, 1987.
2. "Governor-General's Awards: 22 authors named finalists"]. The Globe and Mail, May 19, 1984.
3. "Kreiner views Jamaica via indolent whites". Ottawa Citizen, January 12, 1985.
4. Arnold E. Davidson, "Philip Kreiner's Contact Prints and the Problems of Colonial Representation" in Jean-Michel Lacroix, Image et récit. Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1993. ISBN 978-2878540536. pp. 163-176.
5. "A clash of races in the sub-tropics". The Globe and Mail, January 19, 1985.