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About Ernest Hekkanen
www3.telus.net/neworphicpublishers-hekkanen New Orphic Publishers 706 Mill Street, Nelson, B.C. V1L
4S5 Canada Tel: 250-354-0494 The Artist, Author, Editor & Publisher Ernest Hekkanen is Editor-in-Chief of The New Orphic Review and co-curator of the home-based New Orphic Gallery. His paintings,
collages and prints are often used as cover illustrations. Also, he is a
poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, anthologist,
ghostwriter, reviewer, publisher, printmaker, painter, sculptor and carver.
He has a BA degree from the University of Washington and an MFA degree from
the University of British Columbia. He credits his tenacity in the twin
fields of art and literature to his Finnish heritage. A self-described heretic,
he feels he is able to choose for himself what he wishes to instill belief
in, with the result that he doesnt instill belief in any of the major isms
or religions of our times. A political activist for many years, he was the
main financial backer of the first annual Our Way Home Reunion that took
place during July of 2006, at the Brilliant Cultural Centre in Castlegar,
B.C. He is a member of PEN Canada and the Federation of BC Writers. Born in
Seattle, he moved to Canada in 1969, pursued by the FBI because of his
anti-Vietnam War activities. To date, Hekkanen has published 40
books. The first major assessment of his work was written by Margrith
Schraner, under the title: The
Reluctant Author, The Life and Literature of Ernest Hekkanen. For more information about him, consult
www.abcbookworld.com and enter his name. He is also listed in the Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (editor, William H. New, University of Toronto Press, 2002) and Contemporary Authors (Thomson Gale) in the United States. A comprehensive list of publications
by Hekkanen is available at the Finnish North American Literature Association
website,
www.finnala.com. More information on available Hekkanens titles can be gleaned at
the Library and Archives Canada
website,
www.collectionscanada.ca. Literary Works by Ernest Hekkanen: Novels Of a Fire Beyond
the Hills New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2008)
$25.00 Up & Coming (In
Seattle) New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2003)
- $25.00 The Misadventures
of Bumbleberry Finn New Orphic Publishers
(Nelson 2001) $18.00 Good Ol Boy:
Willis V. McCall (with Ed Roy) New Orphic
Publishers (Vancouver 1999) $29.95 The Last Thing My
Father Gave Me New Orphic Publishers
(Vancouver 1999) $20.00 The House of
Samsara New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver
1997) $14.00 Chasing After
Carnivals (revised) New Orphic Publishers
(Vancouver 1997) $20.00 Black Snow: An
Imaginative Memoir (with Margrith Schraner)
New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver 1996) $23.95 From a Town Now
Dreaming New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver
1995) $20.00 Chasing After
Carnivals Stoddart (Don Mills 1985) Novellas Shadows on a Cave
Wall New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2007)
$20.00 The Life of
Bartholomew G. New Orphic Publishers
(Nelson 2005) $18.00 Mans Sadness New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver 2000) $15.00 The Island of
Winged Wonders New Orphic Publishers
(Vancouver 2000) $15.00 My Dog Is More Than
Just A Dog To Me New Orphic Publishers
(Vancouver 1999) $15.00 Dementia Island New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver 1999) $15.00 You Know Me Better
Than That New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver
1998) $14.00 Short Story Collections Melancholy and
Mystery of a Street New Orphic Publishers
(Nelson 2004) $23.00 The Big Dave (and
Little Wife) Convention New Orphic Publishers
(Nelson 2004) $23.00 Medieval Hour in
the Authors Mind: The Revised, Expanded Edition New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2003) $20.00 Writing Through to
the End, #1 Editor NUC Press (Nelson 2002)
discontinued The Flat Earth
Excavation Company: A Surreal Fiction Anthology
Editor New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2002) $23.00 The Shipwrecked
Heart: Tales of the Fantastic and the Macabre New
Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2001)
$15.00 Bridge Over the
Tampere Rapids and Other Finnish Stories New
Orphic Publishers (Vancouver 1998) $18.00 Those Who Eat at My
Table New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver1998)
$18.00 The Soul You Call
Your Own New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver
1997) $18.00 Journeys That Bring
Us Here New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver
1996) $15.00 The Violent
Lavender Beast Thistledown Press
(Saskatoon 1988) discontinued Medieval Hour in
the Author's Mind Thistledown Press
(Saskatoon 1987) look at new edition above Plays The Expulsion
(Goodbye, Chubby Chickens) Goodbye New
Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2002) $18.00 The Radio Interview New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2001) $15.00 The Clown Act New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2001) $15.00 Harbinger of Fall New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2001) $15.00 The Well New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2000) $18.00 The Lambing New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2000) $15.00 Beyond The Call New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver 1997) $12.00 Essays and Criticism Kafka: The Master
of Yesno: A Critical Study of the Writer and His Work New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2006) $25.00 Heretic! New Orphic Publishers (Nelson 2005) $18.00 Sometimes I Have
These Incendiary Dreams New Orphic Publishers
(Vancouver 2000) $18.00 Turning Life into
Fiction: An Aesthetic Manifesto New
Orphic Publishers (Vancouver 1996) $16.00 Poetry Straying from
Luminosity New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver
1999) $15.00 The Wedding Cycle New Orphic Publishers (Vancouver 1996) $12.00 Anthologies The Flat Earth Excavation Company: A
Surreal Fiction Anthology edited by Ernest Hekkanen $23.00 The New Orphic Review,
Vol. 1, No. 1 through Vol. 11, No. 1 $17.50 per copy To purchase any of the above books,
make out a check for the price and add $7.00 for shipping and handling.
Indicate the title and send it to: New Orphic Publishers 706 Mill Street Nelson, B.C. V1L 4S5 Canada |