W. Canada Jewish book awards

May 05th, 2023

BC authors dominated this year’s shortlists for the Western Canada Jewish Book Awards.

ALAN TWIGG (pictured at right) was nominated in two categories: The Pinsky Givon Family Prize for Non-Fiction for his title, Gidal: The Unusual Friendship of Yosef Wosk and Tim Gidal (Harbour Publishing); and the Kahn Family Foundation Prize for Holocaust literature for Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia (Ronsdale Press).

Other shortlisted BC authors include:

For fiction:

Rachel Rose

SIMON CHOA-JOHNSTON – House of Daughters

RACHEL ROSE – The Octopus Has Three Hearts

For non-fiction:

GABOR MATÉ, MD – The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

For memoir/biography:

LINDA DAYAN FRIMER – Luminous: An Artist’s Story as a Guide to Radical Creativity

Marsha Lederman

– Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

MYRIAM STEINBERG – Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)fertility

For children/youth literature:

NAOMI KLEIN – How to Change Everything: A Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

ROBBIE WAISMAN – Boy from Buchenwald

For poetry:

TOM WAYMAN – Watching a Man Break A Dog’s Back

For Holocaust literature:

ROBERT KRELL- Sounds from Silence: Reflections of a Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist and Teacher

CHARLOTTE SCHALLIÉ (ed.) – But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust

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WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE AWARDS CEREMONY ON MAY 24th, at 7:00pm.

Please register here to join the ceremony.

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