Putting Down RootsMontreal's Immigrant Writers
Elaine Kalman Naves
Biography
Winner of the 1999 QSPELL Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Immigrant writers who have made their homes in Montreal grapple with difficult questions like reconciling loyalty to their origins and to their own most private selves with the need to find a readership, and their desire to belong to the society where they live. Putting Down Roots follows the author's exploratory journeys among writers of Italian, Haitian, Arab, South Asian, and Chinese origin, as well as those writing in Yiddish, Spanish, and Hungarian.
Elaine Kalman Naves is the author of The Writers of Montreal and Journey to Vaja which was a finalist for the QSPELL Non-fiction Prize and winner of the 1998 Jewish Book Awards' Elie Wiesel Prize. In 1998 she was also a recipient of the CBC/Saturday Night Literary Award. Elaine Naves writes a regular books column for the Montreal Gazette.
ISBN: 978-1-55065-103-4