| Pseudonym: | Kit Kelen |
| Birth Date: | 17 December 1958 |
| Birth Place: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Relations: | István Kelen (father) |
| Alma Mater: | University of Sydney University of Western Sydney |
Christopher "Kit" Kelen (born 17 December 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian academic, writer, and artist. He is the younger son of Hungarian-born writer Stephen Kelen.
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".[1] In 1992, "The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees" won an Anne Elder Award.[2] Kelen was Writer-in-Residence for the Australia Council at the B. R. Whiting Library in Rome in 1996.
For many years, Kelen taught Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Macau.[3] As of 2018, he lived mainly on Worimi country on the NSW north coast.[4]
Kelen has published several book-length scholarly works about poetry, including Poetry, Consciousness and Community (2009), City of Poets (2009), Anthem Quality (2014) and Children, Animals and Poetry - Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism (2022).
Kelen was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2019.[5]
Poetry
Novels