Philip Kreiner (born 1950 in Timmins, Ontario)"A gritty tale of a teacher's turmoil among the Cree". The Globe and Mail, April 9, 1987. 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."Governor-General's Awards: 22 authors named finalists"]. The Globe and Mail, May 19, 1984.
He published two further novels, Heartlands"Kreiner views Jamaica via indolent whites". Ottawa Citizen, January 12, 1985. and Contact Prints,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. . pp. 163-176. 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."A clash of races in the sub-tropics". The Globe and Mail, January 19, 1985.
Works People Like Us in a Place Like This (1983, ) Heartlands (1984, ) Contact Prints (1987, )
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