The Koffler Centre of the Arts announced the shortlist for the Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature. The winners will be announced on Sept. 29.
Fiction:
David Bezmozgis – The Betrayers
Joseph Kertes – The Afterlife of Stars
Sean Michaels – Us Conductors
Mireille Silcoff – Chez L’Arabe
Non-Fiction:
Bob Bossin – Davy the Punk
Mark Celinscak – Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp
Daniel J. Levitin – The Organized Mind
Dr. Joe Schwarcz – Monkeys, Myths and Molecules
History:
Beverley Chalmers – Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices under Nazi Rule
Andrew Cohen – Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History
Maria Noriega Rachwal – From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra
Ira Robinson – A History of Antisemitism in Canada
Poetry:
Daniel Goodwin – Catullus’s Soldiers
Seymour Mayne – Cusp Word Sonnets
Ruth Panofsky – The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington
Rachel Zolf – Janey’s Arcadia
Children’s/Young Adult:
Emil Sher – Young Man with Camera
Shelly Sanders – Rachel’s Hope
Eva Wiseman – The World Outside
Frieda Wishinsky, illustrations by Willow Dawson – Avis Dolphin
