The Western Canada Jewish Book Awards have announced their 2023 shortlists. The awards celebrate excellence in writing on Jewish themes and subjects from Western Canadian authors. Each winner receives $2,000. The winners will be named at a live event at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver on May 24.

The Nancy Richler Memorial Prize For Fiction

• Simon Choa-Johnston, House of Daughters (Earnshaw Books)
  
• Cecilia Ekbäck, The Historians (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins)
  
• Rachel Rose, The Octopus Has Three Hearts (Douglas & McIntyre)

The Pinsky Givon Family Prize For Non-Fiction

• Allan Levine, Details Are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Cafe Society Murder (Lyons Press)
  
• Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
  
• Alan Twigg, ed., Gidal: The Unusual Friendship of Yosef Wosk and Tim Gidal (Douglas & McIntyre)
  

The Cindy Roadburg Memorial Prize For Memoir/Biography

• Linda Dayan Frimer, Luminous: An Artist’s Story as a Guide to Radical Creativity (Granville Island Publishing)
  
• Marsha Lederman, Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)
  
• Myriam Steinberg, Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)Fertility (Page Two Books)
  

The Diamond Foundation Prize For Children/Youth

• Naomi Klein, How To Change Everything: A Young Human’s Guide To Protecting The Planet And Each Other (Puffin Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
  
• Nikki Vogel, Silencing Rebecca (Thistledown Press)
  
• Robbie Waisman, Boy from Buchenwald (Bloomsbury Children’s Books/Penguin Random House Canada)
  

The Betty Averbach Foundation Prize For Poetry

• Leah Horlick, Moldovan Hotel (Brick Books)
• Tamar Rubin, Tablet Fragments (Signature Editions)
• Tom Wayman, Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back: Poems for a Dark Time (Harbour Publishing)

The Kahn Family Foundation Prize For Holocaust

• Robert Krell, Sounds From Silence: Reflections Of A Child Holocaust Survivor, Psychiatrist And Teacher (Amsterdam Publishers)
• Charlotte Schallié, ed., But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust (New Jewish Press/University of Toronto Press)
• Alan Twigg, Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia (Ronsdale Press)