Rhea Tregebov among winners for 2024 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards
The awards celebrate outstanding Jewish writing by Canadian authors
Novelist and poet Rhea Tregebov is one of the seven winners of the 2024 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the awards, which annually recognize the finest Canadian writing with Jewish themes and subjects.
Talking to Strangers is a poetry collection that explores new encounters with people and objects. As is characteristic of celebrated poet Rhea Tregebov, the book dabbles in the art of recollection and elegy with skill and tenderness.
Tregebov is a Vancouver-based poet, novelist and children's writer. She has written seven books of poetry and two novels, including Rue des Rosiers, and has won the J. I. Segal Award, the Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction, the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, the Pat Lowther Award and the Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award.
The complete list of winners is as follows:
- Fiction: Let It Destroy You by Harriet Alida Lye
- The Irving Abella Award in History: After the Nazis by Michael Kater
- Biography/Memoir: Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain by Jill Culiner
- Poetry: Talking To Strangers by Rhea Tregebov
- Yiddish: In the Land of the Postscript by Goldie Morgentaler
- Children and Youth: Rising by Sidura Ludwig
- Jewish Thought and Culture: Faithfully Seeking Franz by Elana Wolff
The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards are administered through York University's Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. This year's awards will be presented on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, at a gala ceremony in Toronto.
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