Nora Gold
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Nora Gold is a prize-winning Canadian author, Jewish activist, and founder and editor of Jewish Fiction .net. Her essays, commentary, and reviews have appeared in the Toronto Star[1], The Globe and Mail[2], the Literary Review of Canada[3], and Haaretz[4], In 1998, Gold's collection of short stories, Marrow and Other Stories, won a Canadian Jewish Book Award and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award.
Background
Nora Gold was born in Montreal in 1952. The daughter of the late Alan B. Gold, former Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, she received her MSW and PhD in social work from the University of Toronto. From 1990 to 2000 she worked as an associate professor at McMaster University, before leaving academe to pursue writing full time. She currently serves as Writer-in-Residence and Associate Scholar at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.[5]
Writing
Gold's first book, Marrow and Other Stories, was published in 1998 by Warick. It was met with critical acclaim upon its release, and went on to receive the Louis Lockshin Prize for Short Fiction at the Canadian Jewish Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award.[6]
In 2004, Gold published her first novel,Fields of Exile, which deals with anti-Israelism within academic settings.[7]
Bibliography
- Marrow and Other Stories (1998) Warwick
- Fields of Exile (2014) Dundurn Press
References
- ^ Gold, Nora. "The real agenda of 'Israel Apartheid Week'". Toronto Star. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ Gold, Nora (Nov. 8, 2008). ""Sad, yes, but also unforgettable."". Globe and Mail (Saturday Books Section): 3.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Gold, Nora (November 2010). "Review: The Four Walls of My Freedom by Donna Thomson". Literary Review of Canada.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Gold, Nora. "To fight academic boycotts, we must mobilize the pro-Israel left". Haaretz. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ "CWSE Writer-in-Residence Program". OISE University of Toronto. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "2014 Toronto Jewish Literary Festival". Koffler Centre of the Arts. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ Posner, Michael. "Leftist Candian author explains her slow drift to the right". Times of Israel. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
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