Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Lynn Popham - Tuesday Oct 16 2007 10:20 am
Posted in: Awards
Winnipeg writer has won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for her book Kanada. Kanada is the story of 14 year old Jutka, an Hungarian girl who survives Auschwitz, only to learn that her suffering is not over with the end of the war. Homeless, she lives in the hopelessness of refugee camps, wondering if there is a place for her anywhere in the world. The story is based on the experiences of Eva's family.
Kanada has also been short listed for the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature - Text.
has also written A Place Not Home, My Canary Yellow Star, winner of the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award, and No One Must Know, winner of the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award.
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