Vine Awards Celebrate Canadian Jewish Literature – By Alex Rose
Vine Awards Celebrate Canadian Jewish Literature
By Alex Rose
Source: CJN, The Canadian Jewish News. October 23, 2018
Four authors are each going home $10,000 richer after the annual Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature were handed out on Oct. 11 in downtown Toronto.
Awards were handed out in four categories: fiction, won by Laurie Gelman for Class Mom, a novel about kindergarten parent politics; non-fiction, which went to Julija Sukys for Siberian Exile: Blood, War and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning, a story about her paternal grandparents; history, awarded to Hugues Théorêt for The Blue Shirts, a chronicle of an anti-Semitic movement in Quebec; and children’s/young adult, won by Deborah Katz for her book Rare is Everywhere, a picture book about rare animals.
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