Ana Siljak is a
Canadian
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historian and writer. She is best known for her
Charles Taylor Prize
The RBC Taylor Prize (2000–2020), formerly known as the Charles Taylor Prize, is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Charles Taylor Foundation to the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction. It is named for Charles P. B. Taylor, a ...
-nominated book ''Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World'', a biography of
Vera Zasulich
Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (russian: link=no, Ве́ра Ива́новна Засу́лич; – 8 May 1919) was a Russian socialist activist, Menshevik writer and revolutionary.
Radical beginnings
Zasulich was born in Mikhaylovka, in the Smol ...
published in 2008.
She is a professor of Russian and Eastern European history at
Queen's University in
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north-eastern end of Lake Ontario, at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River (south end of the Rideau Canal). The city is midway between To ...
,
["Professor nominated for Charles Taylor Prize"]
''The Queen's Journal
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'', February 5, 2009. and has contributed reviews of history and non-fiction books to the ''
Literary Review of Canada
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''.
Ana Siljak
''Literary Review of Canada
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''. She has a PhD in history from Harvard University
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. She was also coauthor with Philipp Ther of ''Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948'' (2001).
References
21st-century Canadian historians
Canadian literary critics
Women literary critics
Writers from Ontario
Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Canadian biographers
21st-century Canadian women writers
Historians of Russia
Women biographers
21st-century biographers
Canadian women historians
Year of birth missing (living people)
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