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Winners announced for 2018 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature


The winners of the 2018 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature have been announced. Each writer will receive $10,000.

The winners are:

Fiction
Class Mom, Laurie Gelman (Henry Holt and Company)

Non-fiction

Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning, Julija Sukys (University of Nebraska Press)

History
The Blue Shirts: Adrien Arcand and Fascist Anti-Semitism in Canada, Hugues Théoret (University of Ottawa Press)

Children’s/Young Adult
Rare is Everywhere, Deborah Katz (Miss Bird Books)

This year’s jury consisted of health writer Beverley Chalmers, novelist and writing instructor Joseph Kertes, and poet, author, and critic Lee Maracle.