Allan Levine (born February 10, 1956) is a Canadian author from

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, known mainly for his award-winning non-fiction and

historical mystery The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. These works are set in a time period considered historical from the author's perspective, and the central plot involves t ...

writing.

Life and works

Levine attended the

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; he got a PhD in

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from Toronto in 1985. His graduate thesis on the grain business in Winnipeg was turned into his first book in 1987, at which point he was teaching and freelancing as a journalist. He is an alumnus of Camp Massad of Manitoba. Levine's non-fiction work '' Fugitives of the Forest'' was awarded the Yad Vashem Prize in Holocaust History in the 1999

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. His series of Sam Klein Mysteries followed. In late 2004, Levine toured Germany promoting ''Die Sünden der Suffragetten'', the German translation of his mystery ''Sins of the Suffragette''. On October 2, 2020, the University of Winnipeg announced that Levine was receiving an honorary doctor of laws at the October 23, 2020 convocation.

Published works

¹ Scattered Among the Peoples (2002): Short-listed for the McNally-Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year and the Isbister Best Non-Fiction Manitoba Book of the Year
² Fugitives of the Forest (1998): Winner of the Yad Vashem Prize in Holocaust History, Canadian Jewish Book Awards, 1999 and Short-listed for the McNally-Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year, 1998
³ The Blood Libel (1997): Shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada First novel Award and the Arthur Ellis First Mystery Novel Award.

References

External links

Personal website

Bio on the Canadian Writer's Union site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Levine, Allan 1956 births Living people Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian mystery writers Jewish Canadian writers University of Manitoba alumni University of Toronto alumni Writers from Winnipeg Writers of historical mysteries