Christopher Kelen
Professor Christopher Kelen is an Australian academic, writer, and artist currently residing in Macao, China. He is the younger son of Hungarian-born writer Stephen Kelen and the younger brother of poet S. K. Kelen.
Professor Kelen is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry and two novels. He has been published widely since the mid-1970s and in 1988 won an ABA/ABC bicentennial award with his poem "Views from Pinchgut".
In 1992, "The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees" won an Anne Elder Award. Kelen was Writer-in-Residence for the Australia Council at the B. R. Whiting Library in Rome in 1996.
Prof. Kelen currently teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Macau.
Prof. Kelen has published several book-length scholarly works about poetry, including Poetry, Consciousness and Community, City of Poets, and Anthem Quality.
