Henry Kreisel, OC (June 5, 1922 – April 22, 1991) was a Canadian writer of novels and essays and a professor of literature.
[2] It was there that he began his career as a writer, deciding to write in English and modelling himself on the bilingual author Joseph Conrad.
In 1947 he began teaching at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, later became Head of the English Department and then VP Academic.
In order to honour him, the University of Alberta's Canadian Literature Centre in Edmonton organizes an annual "Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture".
An inventory of his papers is existing at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.