Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer
Born
India[1]
NationalityCanadian
OccupationWriter

Jeet Heer is a Canadian author, comics critic,[2] literary critic and journalist.[3] He is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine[4] and a former staff writer at The New Republic. As of 2014, he was writing a doctoral thesis at York University in Toronto.[needs update][5] The publications he has written for include The National Post, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Heer was a member of the 2016 jury for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.[6] His anthology A Comic Studies Reader, with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Award.[7]

Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a Sikh.[8][9]

  1. ^ https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1705336495492469195
  2. ^ "A Conversation with Jeet Heer | The Comics Journal". www.tcj.com. 13 October 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-04-20. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  3. ^ "Jeet Heer". The New Republic. Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  4. ^ Room, Press (2019-06-18). "New 'Nation' Editor D.D. Guttenplan Names Jeet Heer National-Affairs Correspondent and Jane McAlevey Strikes Correspondent". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Archived from the original on 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  5. ^ "Host: Jeet Heer". Alberta, Calgary, Canada: Calgary Wordfest. 2014. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  6. ^ "2016 Jury". Scotiabank Giller Prize. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017.
  7. ^ "Rollins Book Award". Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  8. ^ "Journalist and Author Jeet Heer Rejoins The Nation as National Affairs Correspondent". American Kahani. 22 May 2022. Indo-Canadian journalist and author Jeet Here has rejoined The Nation, a magazine of progressive politics, culture, and opinion ...
  9. ^ @heerjeet (March 18, 2017). "I was raised a Sikh ..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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