Elaine Kalman Naves

Elaine Kalman Naves (born 1947) is an award-winning Quebec writer, journalist, editor and lecturer. She was born in Hungary and moved to Canada when she was eleven. She has twice won the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, in 1999 for Putting Down Roots and in 2003 for Shoshanna's Story. Her 2015 novel The Book of Faith was on the long list in 2016 for The Leacock Award.

Works

• Putting Down Roots, Montreal's Immigrant Writers (1998, Véhicule Press, ISBN 9781550651034)
• Shoshanna's Story: A Mother, Daughter, and the Shadows of History (2006, Bison Books, ISBN 0803283865)
• The Book of Faith (2015, Linda Leith Publishing, ISBN 1927535743)