Self-Portrait

Bibliography

Biography

Interview 1

Interview 2

Chronology

Writing

Critical Review

Nikita Sunburn published several more books than those listed here with extremely obscure publishers in India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland and in Belize as well as some dubious operations in North America. The books below are those that seem to have some credible provenance. Because of his intermittent hipness and cultivated unpopularity there are many bootleg copies of his books. Some of them have been published under other names, in some cases under almost famous authors names by unscrupulous alcoholic and drug dependent publishers. Some of the authors have assumed authorship of Nikita's best(?) work and the threat of lawsuits prevent us from naming these books. Once Nikita realized that his covert satires were accepted by authors as their own work, he decided to publish new works under these same authors' names that far surpassed their own meagre abilities. In any case, many of the books you may have read thinking this is much better than would be expected from someone as half-baked as, for instance, Mallory Batfood, were probably penned by Mr. Sunburn.
In fact we suspect that the number of works from the post-modern period were actually penned by Nikita Sunburn, or plagiarised from his work, number in the thousands. On the other hand, many books attributed to Sunburn were actually written by others as it became very fashionable in the 1980s for writers to submit work under his name. Another factor making the Sunburn bibliography so difficult is the well-known conspiracy of librarians and philologists to delete entries for Nikita Sunburn. This action was taken by a fascist sub-committee of the World Librarian Association, the members of which are secret. (1) Many mainstream publishers have an unwritten rule to excise any references to Nikita Sunburn in books they publish. And finally there is the viable suspicion that 'Nikita Sunburn' is obviously a joke name. Many Sunburn scholars believe that Sunburn is a pseudonym of Karen Eliot, Luther Blissett, and Gianluca Vialli. We dismiss their evidence as fairly suspect but do feel there is strong evidence that 'Nikita Sunburn' is a pseudonym for Jean-Guy Talbot. John Feel has asserted publicly that he is Nikita Sunburn, though the credibility of this assertion is thought to be low, since Fell is well know prankster.
Even amongst the works below, which are hard to find and go for as much as $3000 on Ebay, it is evident that Mr. Sunburn invented much of what might be called the avant-garde literary schools, and recent critical theory and philosophy. One wonders why there are no citations of his work in Debord, Derrida, Deleuze or Dewdney, to name only those theorists whose names begin with D. Nikita Sunburn is the dirty secret of every hip literary experimentalist and cultural theorist from Scarborough to Rennes. So few have acknowledged their deep indebtedness to this twisted genius!

Poetry:

• Symbolic Plumbing, (1948) Mudpie Books, Port Hope.
• What Fellatio Means to Me, (1952) Screed Publishing, Creemore.

Novels:

• One Bald Girl, (1954) Erratic House, Sydney.

Criticism:

• Against Indigestion, (1950) Factotum, Rexdale.
• Piss on Modernism and Shit on Post-Modernism, (1955) Screed Publishing, Creemore.

Notes:

1) Phil O'Lodge has put forward a rather paranoid suggestion that the suppression of Nikita Sunburn's work by the World Librarian Association was in fact an aesthetic intervention by guerilla artist John Fell, sometimes know as John 1 Fellswoop. John Fell has been known for his dadaist pranks, one example of which was his famous one man show called Please Come Back in 15 Minutes presented by the Contemporary Art Gallery of Belleville in 1978. The show consisted of a sign on the locked door of the gallery which said "Please Come Back in 15 Minutes". John Fell himself has claimed to be Nikita Sunburn, though many philogists find this unlikely due to extreme differences in style between accepted publications of Sunburn and those of Fell. There are many discrepancies in word count and dominance order. Obfuscation does not appear in any John Fell's word count while it appears 182 times in Sunburn's writings.