Christopher Kelen (born 17 December 1958 in Sydney

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) is an Australia

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n writer and artist currently residing in Macao, China. Kelen is the author of nine volumes of poetry and two novels. Kelen has been published widely since the mid-1970s, and in 1988 won an ABA

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 bicentennial award with his poem "Views from Pinchgut".

In 1992 "The Naming of the Harbour and the Trees" won an Anne Elder Award

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. Kelen was Writer-in-Residence for the Australia Council

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 at the B. R. Whiting Library in Rome

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 in 1996.

Kelen currently teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Macau

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