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Erna Paris was born in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Paris (Sorbonne). She is the author of six critically acclaimed books, the most recent of which, Long Shadows: Truth Lies and History, published in 2001, won the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Award for History, the inaugural Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the Dorothy Shoichet Prize for History from the Canadian Jewish Book Awards. The End of Days: A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, won the 1996 National Jewish Book Award for History.
She lived in France during much of the turbulent 1960s and taught high school English before beginning a full-time writing career in 1971; first as a magazine journalist and broadcaster in French and English, then as a writer of literary non-fiction. She lives in Toronto. |
Bibliography
Non-Fiction
Jews: An Account of their Experience in Canada
Stepfamilies: Making Them Work
Unhealed Wounds: France and the Klaus Barbie Affair
The Garden and the Gun: A Journey into Israel
The End of Days: A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History |
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