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]
Jeet Heer | |
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Born | India[1] |
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | Writer |
Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a Sikh.[8][9]
Indo-Canadian journalist and author Jeet Here has rejoined The Nation, a magazine of progressive politics, culture, and opinion ...