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. 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.[5] His anthology A Comic Studies Reader, with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Award.[6]

Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a Sikh.[7][8]

  1. ^ @HeerJeet. "Tweet from September 22, 2023". Twitter. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  2. ^ "A Conversation with Jeet Heer | The Comics Journal". www.tcj.com. October 13, 2014. Archived from the original on April 20, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  3. ^ "Jeet Heer". The New Republic. Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  4. ^ Room, Press (June 18, 2019). "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 July 10, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  5. ^ "2016 Jury". Scotiabank Giller Prize. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017.
  6. ^ "Rollins Book Award". Archived from the original on February 12, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  7. ^ "Journalist and Author Jeet Heer Rejoins The Nation as National Affairs Correspondent". American Kahani. May 22, 2022. Indo-Canadian journalist and author Jeet Here has rejoined The Nation, a magazine of progressive politics, culture, and opinion ...
  8. ^ @heerjeet (March 18, 2017). "I was raised a Sikh ..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.