Edeet Ravel is an

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i-Canadian

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who lives in

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, Canada.

Background

Edeet Ravel is a Canadian-Israeli writer who was born in 1955 in

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, an Israeli

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near the Lebanese border. Her family relocated to Montreal when she was seven. At age 18 she returned to Israel to attend

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

where she received a B.A. and M.A. in

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. She returned to Montreal to complete an M.A. and Ph.D in

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and a Masters in Creative Writing at

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. She subsequently taught at McGill, Concordia and

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Bibliography

* 1995 ''Lovers: A Midrash'' * 2003 ''Ten Thousand Lovers'' * 2004 ''Look for Me'' * 2005 ''A Wall of Light'' * 2007 ''The Thrilling Life of Pauline de Lammermoor'' * 2007 ''The Mysterious Adventures of Pauline Bovary'' * 2007 ''The Secret Journey of Pauline Siddhartha'' * 2008 ''The Saver'' * 2008 ''Your Sad Eyes and Unforgettable Mouth'' * 2011 ''Held'' * 2011 ''The Last Rain'' * 2012 ''The Cat'' * 2017 ''A Boy Is Not a Bird'' * 2020 ''A Boy Is Not a Ghost''

Awards

* Norma Epstein National Fiction Award (Lovers A Midrash) * Governor General's Award Finalist (Ten Thousand Lovers) *

Koret Jewish Book Award The Koret Jewish Book Award is an annual award that recognizes "recently published books on any aspect of Jewish life in the categories of biography/autobiography and literary studies, fiction, history and philosophy/thought published in, or transla ...

Finalist (Ten Thousand Lovers) * Quebec Writers Federation Award Finalist (Ten Thousand Lovers) * Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction (Look For Me) * Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist (A Wall of Light) * Canada & The Caribbean Commonwealth Writers' Prize Finalist (A Wall of Light) *

Canadian Jewish Book Award The Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards were a Canadian program of literary awards, managed, produced and presented annually by the Koffler Centre of the Arts to works judged to be the year's best works of literature by Jewish Canadian ...

(A Wall of Light) * J.I. Segal Award (A Wall of Light) * Canadian Children's Bookclub Choice (Pauline Series, The Saver) * 2012 Popular Paperback for Young Adults, ALA (Held) * Best Bets List, Ontario Library Association (Held) * YA Top Forty Fiction Titles, Pennsylvania School Librarians Association (Held) * Best Books for Kids & Teens 2012, Canadian Children's Book Centre (Held) * Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist (Held) * Young Adult Book of the Year finalist, Canadian Library Association (Held) * Arthur Ellis Award finalist (Held) * John Spray Mystery Award finalist (Held) * Snow Willow Award 2012 (Held) * Evergreen Award nominee 2014 (The Cat) * Canadian Jewish Literary Award (A Boy Is Not a Bird) * Silver Birch Award finalist (A Boy Is Not a Bird) * Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature finalist (A Boy Is Not a Bird) * Junior Library Guild Book Club Selection (A Boy Is Not a Bird) * AJL Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable Book (A Boy Is Not a Ghost) * Governor General's Award Finalist (A Boy Is Not a Ghost)

References

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Haaretz
Mar 14, 2003 "Torture in the Bedroom" by Yitzhak Laor *

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, April 2003 "The Thousand Lovers" by Mary Soderstorm
Globe and Mail
Sept. 29, 2005
Le Monde
Dec 16, 2005 "Amoureuse en Guerre" by Emilie Grangeray * Globe and Mail, Mar 31, 2007 "A Child's Garden of Reading" by Susan Perren *

Canadian Literature Canadian literature is the literature of a multicultural country, written in languages including Canadian English, Canadian French, Indigenous languages, and many others such as Canadian Gaelic. Influences on Canadian writers are broad both ge ...

, Autumn 2007 (194), "Beyond the Balagan" by Adrienne Kertzer
Toronto Star
Oct. 7, 2007

External links

Official website of Edeet Ravel
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