Avner Mandelman

{{short description|Israeli-Canadian businessman and writer}}

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Avner Mandelman is an Israeli-Canadian businessman and writer. His debut novel The Debba, published in 2010, won the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel,"Penny, Cameron win Arthur Ellis Awards". The Globe and Mail, June 4, 2011. and was a longlisted nominee for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize."Giller longlist announced". Vancouver Sun, September 21, 2010.

A former hedge fund manager in Toronto, Ontario,"When assessing a company, check the sparkplugs". The Globe and Mail, July 31, 2010. Mandelman has also published two short story collections and the investment guide The Sleuth Investor. His short story collection Talking to the Enemy won the first Sophie Brody Award for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature from the American Library Association in 2006.[http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=archive&template=/contentmanagement/contentdisplay.cfm&ContentID=114221 "Avner Mandelman receives first Sophie Brody Medal for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature"]. American Library Association, January 24, 2006. Talking to the Enemy, containing stories featured in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize Stories, was recognized as a Best Book of 2005 by Kirkus Reviews and won the J. I. Segal Award for Fiction in 2000.