Gabriella Goliger (born 1949) is a

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novelist and short story writer. She was co-winner of the

Journey Prize The Journey Prize (officially called The Writers' Trust of Canada McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize) is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by McClelland and Stewart and the Writers' Trust of Canada for the best short story published by a ...

in 1997 for her short story "Maladies of the Inner Ear", and has since published three books: ''Song of Ascent'' in 2001, ''Girl Unwrapped'' in 2010, which won the

Ottawa Book Award Ottawa Book Award and Prix du livre d'Ottawa is a Canadian literary award presented by the City of Ottawa to the best English and French language books written in the previous year by a living author residing in Ottawa.

for Fiction, and ''Eva Salomon's War'', which was published in 2018 and received praise from novelists

Joan Thomas Joan Thomas (born 1949) is a Canadian novelist and book reviewer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Thomas grew up in Carberry, Manitoba and later worked as a freelance journalist and book reviewer for ''The Globe and Mail'', the ''Winnipeg Free Press' ...

and Francis Itani."Biography"
Gabriella Goliger Official Website, October 15, 2018. She is Jewish. Goliger also won the Prism International Award in 1993, and was a finalist for the

again in 1995. She has been published in a number of journals and anthologies including Best New American Voices in 2000 and Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada. Born in Italy, Goliger grew up in

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, where she obtained a B.A. in English Literature at

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. She later obtained an M.A. in English Literature from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem 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 ...

. She has lived in

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, the Eastern Arctic, and

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"Queer literary event marks 25 years of Lambda"
. ''

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'', August 26, 2010. has been her home for the past 30 years. She has lived with her partner,

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academic Barbara Freeman, for almost three decades; they've been married since 2006.

Works

*''Song of Ascent'' (2001) *''Girl Unwrapped'' (2010) *''Eva Salomon's War'' (2018)

References

External links

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