Keath Fraser

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Keath Fraser
Born(1944-12-25)25 December 1944
Vancouver, Canada
OccupationAuthor, editor
Education
Period1982–present
GenreFiction,
Notable awards

Keath Fraser (born 25 December 1944) is a Canadian fiction author. He lived in London from 1970 to 1973, where he studied at the University of London and earned his PhD He later taught English in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for five years as a tenured professor. He then stopped teaching to become a full-time author. [1]

Contents

Fraser has travelled widely in Asia, Europe, Australia, India and Cambodia, and these experiences have contributed to his work. [1] Fraser edited the books Bad Trips (1991) and Worst Journeys: The Picador Book of Travel (1992), both humorous anthologies authored by various writers concerning their experiences in foreign lands.[ citation needed ]

Writing style

Bronwyn Drainie writes, "If you really want to journey into the heart of darkness, you'd be advised to travel with Vancouver writer Keath Fraser, a man of extraordinary talents. [2] "

Fraser's dark, vivid and incredibly distinctive writing style ranges very widely in genre, settings and voices and is clearly characterized by his love of the city of Vancouver, his birthplace and home since his return from London in 1973. [1] In 1997 what turned out to be a controversial biography by him of the novelist Sinclair Ross was published, As For Me and My Body: A Memoir of Sinclair Ross. [3] In it Fraser made public knowledge of Ross's thus-far little-known homosexuality.

Vocal impairment

Fraser suffers from spasmodic dysphonia, a voice disorder caused by involuntary movements of one or more muscles of the voice box that causes the voice to sound stiff and strangled. [4] He has written a memoir of his battles to regain control of his voice called The Voice Gallery. [1]

Bibliography

Awards and recognitions

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 , Author Bio ABC Bookworld.
  2. , Books in Canada: Keath Fraser Interview.
  3. Calder, Alison (30 June 2002). "Sinclair Ross". The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 27 October 2007.
  4. "Spasmodic Dysphonia". Archived from the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 3 November 2010., NIDC: Spasmodic Dysphonia.