Erna Paris

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Erna Paris is a Canadian non-fiction author born in Toronto, Ontario.

In 1960 she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto. Paris subsequently moved to France for several years during which she studied at the Sorbonne.

Paris lives in Toronto.

[edit] Awards and recognition

1970: winner, Media Club of Canada, feature writing
1973: winner, Media Club of Canada, radio documentary
1974: winner, feature writing
1974: winner, Media Club of Canada, radio documentary
1981-2001, NOW Magazine Best Books, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
1983: winner, gold medal, National Magazine Awards
1990: Best Canadian Essays, Fifth House Press, The Boat People
1991: winner, bronze medal The White Award, US-Canada, The Boat People
1995: winner, Year-End Best Books,Quill and Quire, The End of Days: Tolerance, Tyranny and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
1996: winner, Canadian Jewish Book Awards, History, The End of Days: Tolerance, Tyranny and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
2000: Globe and Mail Best Books, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
2001: winner, Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
2001: winner, Shaughnessy Cohen Award For Political Writing, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
2001: winner, Dorothy Shoichet Prize for History, Canadian Jewish Book Awards, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
2001: The Christian Science Monitor Best Books, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
2001: The New Statesman Best Books, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
2002: Visiting Fellow, International Affairs Program, University of Colorado at Boulder
2003: "The Presence of Excellence/ Vingt-Cinq Ans d'Excellence: Twenty-Five Years of Selections from the National Magazine Awards, National Magazine Awards Foundation
2005: "The 100 Most Important Canadian Books Ever Written"(1535-2004): Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History, The Literary Review of Canada

[edit] Bibliography

Jews, An Account of Their Experience in Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1980. ISBN 0-7715-9574-3
Stepfamilies: Making Them Work. Toronto: Avon, 1984. ISBN 0-380-86405-3
Unhealed Wounds: France and the Klaus Barbie Affair. Toronto: Methuen, 1985. ISBN 0-458-99820-6
The Garden and the Gun: A Journey Inside Israel. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988 ISBN 0-88619-121-1
The End of Days: A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Toronto: Lester, 1995. ISBN 1-895555-73-6
Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2000. ISBN 0-676-97251-9
The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America, Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2008. ISBN 978-0-676-97744-8