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Erna Paris

{{Short description|Canadian non-fiction author (1938–2022)}}

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Erna Paris {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (6 May 1938 – 3 February 2022) was a Canadian non-fiction author.

Biography

Erna Paris was born Erna Newman in Toronto to an essentially secular Jewish family.{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Patrick |title=Acclaimed author Erna Paris explored discrimination and human rights |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-acclaimed-author-erna-paris-explored-discrimination-and-human-rights/ |publisher=The Globe and Mail |access-date=22 July 2024 |date=7 February 2022}} She was the niece of classical pianist Beth Lipkin. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in Honours Philosophy and English, Paris moved to France for several years, where she continued her studies at the Sorbonne. She began her writing career in the 1970s as a magazine journalist and radio broadcaster/documentarist.

She was the author of seven books and the winner of twelve national and international prizes for her books, journalism, and radio documentaries. She was also a frequent contributor to the opinion page of the Globe and Mail.

Paris lived in Toronto with her second husband, Thomas M. Robinson, professor emeritus of Ancient Greek Philosophy and Classics at the University of Toronto. She had a daughter, Michelle, and a son, Roland. Paris died on 3 February 2022, at the age of 83.[https://necrocanada.com/obituaries-2022/erna-paris-thursday-february-03-2022/ Erna Paris obituary]

Awards and recognition

Bibliography

  • Jews, An Account of Their Experience in Canada. Toronto: Macmillan, 1980. {{ISBN|0-7715-9574-3}}
  • Stepfamilies: Making Them Work. Toronto: Avon, 1984. {{ISBN|0-380-86405-3}}
  • Unhealed Wounds: France and the Klaus Barbie Affair. Toronto: Methuen, 1985. {{ISBN|0-458-99820-6}}
  • The Garden and the Gun: A Journey Inside Israel. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988 {{ISBN|0-88619-121-1}}
  • The End of Days: A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Toronto: Lester, 1995. {{ISBN|1-895555-73-6}}
  • Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2000. {{ISBN|0-676-97251-9}}
  • The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America, Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-676-97744-8}}
  • From Tolerance to Tyranny: A Cautionary Tale From Fifteenth-Century Spain, Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-77086-397--2}} (New edition of The End of Days.)

References

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External links

  • [http://www.ernaparis.com Erna Paris official website], accessed 17 July 2006
  • [http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/01autumn/alumninotes.asp University of Toronto Magazine: Alumni Notes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222091227/http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/01autumn/alumninotes.asp |date=22 February 2007 }}, Autumn 2001, "Kudos", accessed 17 July 2006
  • [https://www.academia.edu/6155467/Long_Shadows_Truth_Lies_and_History_Erna_Paris_ Long Shadows Truth Lies and History by Erna Paris (review)]

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Category:1930s births

Category:2022 deaths

Category:20th-century Canadian historians

Category:Jewish Canadian writers

Category:Writers from Toronto

Category:University of Paris alumni

Category:University of Toronto alumni

Category:21st-century Canadian historians

Category:Members of the Order of Canada

Category:Canadian women historians