Name Edeet Ravel Role Novelist | Movies The Saver | |
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Nominations Scotiabank Giller Prize, Governor General's Award for English-language fiction Books Ten thousand lovers, A Wall of Light, The Saver, Held, Your Sad Eyes and Unforgett |
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Edeet Ravel is an Israeli-Canadian novelist born in Israel and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She currently lives in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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Background
Edeet Ravel is a Canadian-Israeli writer who was born in 1955 in Sasa, an Israeli kibbutz near the Lebanese border. Her family relocated to Montreal when she was seven. At age 18 she returned to Israel to attend Hebrew University where she received a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature. She returned to Montreal to complete an M.A. and Ph.D in Jewish Studies at McGill University and a Masters in Creative Writing at Concordia University. She subsequently taught at McGill, Concordia and John Abbott College.
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