Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
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Edition 21 (2011) Winner
Helen Waldstein Wilkes
ヘレン・ウォルドスタイン・ウィルクス
Helen Waldstein Wilkes
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- Canada
- Nationality
- Canadian
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence History
- Canada (Alberta)
Career
- Occupations
- writer, author
- Active Years
- 2009-2024
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Alberta Readers' Choice Award | Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery | narrative non-fiction | — | winner |
| 2011 | Edna Staebler Award | Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery | Creative Non-Fiction | Wilfrid Laurier University | winner |
Alberta Readers' Choice Award
2011
Work:
Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery
Category:
narrative non-fiction
Result:
winner
Edna Staebler Award
2011
Work:
Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery
Category:
Creative Non-Fiction
Organization:
Wilfrid Laurier University
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery
2009 non-fiction, memoir 280 pagesIn the book, the author chronicles her discoveries after reading a box of letters she had never before seen. Her Jewish parents had fled Czechoslovakia in April 1939 to seek haven in Canada. Once in place, they corresponded with family and friends, encouraging them to escape the mounting peril that Hitler had envisioned as the Final Solution. Wilkes would learn that shortly after her parents migration, the ability to flee had been curtailed; and that each letter, compounded the historical anguish the writers were forced to endure.
Holocaustfamily historylettersNazi Germany
Translations
- German: "Das Schlimmste aber war der Judenstern. Das Schicksal meiner Familie." Transl. Christina Goldt, Ingrid Hildebrand, Margarete Kollmar, Angelika Meirhofer, Ilse Windhoff. Osburg, Hamburg 2014
- Spanish: “Cartas de los Ausentes“. Transl. José Miguel Parra, Prologue Jacobo Pruschy. Editorial Confluencias. Spain 2018.
Bibliography
- Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery
Legacy
Known for her memoir 'Letters from the Lost', providing historical insights through family letters from the Holocaust era. Winner of Alberta Readers' Choice Award and Edna Staebler Award.