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Helen Weinzweig


Born
in Radom, Poland
May 21, 1915


Helen Weinzweig (1915–2010) was a Canadian writer. The author of two novels and a short story collection, her novel Basic Black with Pearls won the Toronto Book Award in 1981, and her short story collection A View from the Roof was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1989.

Born in Poland in 1915, she emigrated to Canada at age 10 with her mother, and married composer John Weinzweig on July 12, 1940. She published her first short story, "Surprise!", in Canadian Forum in 1967, and her debut novel Passing Ceremony was published in 1973. She came to be regarded as one of Canada's first important feminist writers. Her style was marked by experimental forms with some aspects of metafiction; in her ...more

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Average rating: 3.53 · 896 ratings · 161 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
Basic Black with Pearls
3.52 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 1980 — 17 editions
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Passing Ceremony
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A View from the Roof: Stories
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“One hand was stroking my hair. He could not have known I was immobilized by the touch of his hand on my head. No one had ever done that. But then, I had never been on my knees before.”
― Helen Weinzweig, Basic Black with Pearls
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“Tomorrow is always a proper time.”
― Helen Weinzweig, Basic Black with Pearls
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“I was about to expatiate on the phenomenon of paradox, when I remembered that my philosophizing causes Coenraad to lose his erection.”
― Helen Weinzweig, Basic Black with Pearls
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