The winners of the fourth annual Canadian Jewish Literary Awards have been announced. The eight winners will be presented with a $1,000 prize at an awards ceremony to be held Oct. 14 at Toronto’s York University.
The winning titles are:
Fiction
The Ghost Keeper, by Natalie Morrill (HarperCollins/Patrick Crean Editions)
Memoir/Biography
To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen’s Account of a War Criminal Trial, by Kathy Kacer with Jordana Lebowitz (Second Story Press)
Poetry
The Panic Room, by Rebecca Păpacaru (Nightwood Editions)
Yiddish
In Your Words: Translations from the Yiddish and the Hebrew, by Seymour Mayne (Ronald P. Frye & Co.)
Scholarship
Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism, by Daniel Kupfert Heller (Princeton University Press)
History
Histoire des Juifs du Québec, by Pierre Anctil (Les éditions du Boréal)
Holocaust Literature
In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust, by Max Wallace (Allen Lane/Penguin Random House Canada)
Children and Youth
Fania’s Heart, Anne Renaud and Richard Rudnicki, ill. (Second Story)