Canadian Jewish Book Awards

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 writers or on Jewish cultural and historical topics.[1] The Koffler Centre of the Arts announced in December 2014 that the Awards were being "put on hiatus for 2015 and will resume, invigorated and reinvented, in 2016" as the Koffler recalibrates and revamps several of its current programs.[2] In its place, a group of jury members formed the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards for 2015.[3]

In February 2016, after a one-year hiatus, the Koffler Centre of the Arts relaunched the awards as the Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature. The new awards have five categories, each with a $10,000 prize. Fiction, Non-Fiction, History and Young Adult/Children's Literature will be awarded annually; Poetry will be awarded every three years.[4]

Winners

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2015 (as the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards)

References

  1. "Jewish Book Awards will honour 9 authors". Canadian Jewish News, May 23, 2012.
  2. "", Koffler Centre of the Arts announces its Winter/Spring 2015 programs in visual arts, literary and live performance , Press Release, 17 Dec 2014.
  3. Gladstone, Bill (12 May 2015). "Jewish literary awards to go on despite Koffler hiatus". Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  4. "Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature re-launch with 5 prizes worth $10K". CBC Books. 23 February 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
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