Elaine Kalman Naves (born 1947) is a Hungarian-born Canadian writer,

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, editor and lecturer from

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. She has twice won the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, in 1999 for ''Putting Down Roots'' and in 2003 for ''Shoshanna's Story''. Her 2015 novel ''The Book of Faith'' was on the long list in 2016 for The Leacock Award.

Biography

Naves was born in Hungary in 1947, though her family moved to England in the wake of the Revolution of 1956. They eventually immigrated to Canada. Naves attended

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, where she studied history, as well as

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, where she studied education. Following graduation from each, she taught English and History at the secondary level, then served as a historian for the Centre d’Étude du Québec of

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Awards and honours

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'' named ''Shoshanna's Story'' one of the best books of 2003.

Publications

* ''Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family'' (1996, McGill-Queen's University Press, ) * ''Putting Down Roots, Montreal's Immigrant Writers'' (1998, Press, ) * ''Storied Streets: Montreal in the Literary Imagination'', with Bryan Demchinsky (2000, Macfarlane Walter & Ross, ) * ''Shoshanna's Story: A Mother, Daughter, and the Shadows of History'' (2003,

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, ) * ''Robert Weaver: Godfather of Canadian Literature'' (2008,

Véhicule Press The Vehicule Poets was a collective formed in Montreal in the 1970s by poets Endre Farkas, Artie Gold, Tom Konyves, Claudia Lapp, John McAuley, Stephen Morrissey and Ken Norris, who shared an interest in experimental American poetry and European ...

, ) * ''Portrait of a Scandal: The Trial of Robert Notman'' (2014,

, ) * ''The Book of Faith'' (2015, Linda Leith Publishing, ) * "Shoshanna. Mère et fille dans les ténèbres de l'histoire", traduit par

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, Éditions Alias, Groupe Nota Bene, 2017.

References

External links

Official website
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