Name Jill Culiner | Role Artist | |
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Books Finding home, Slanderous Tongue: A Sumach Mystery | ||
Visite de l'Hôtel de la Boule d'Or à Saint-Jean-sur-Erve : La chambre des meurtres
Jill Culiner (born September 13, 1945) is a Canadian folk artist, photographer and writer.
She has had one-person shows of her photography and "boxes" (an art form she pioneered that depicts various social issues in 3-D) in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Canada and Hungary.
Her exhibition (with texts) entitled "La Mémoire Effacée" (The Vanished Memory, Az Elenyészett Emlék) concerning the First and Second World Wars, and the vanished Jewish communities of Europe, toured France, Canada and Hungary from 1996 to 2004 and was showcased in Budapest at the city's Holocaust Museum.
Her books include a photography book, Sans s'abolir pourtant, (L'Echoppe, Paris, France 1992,) Felicity's Power, a novel (Power of Love, Australia 2001) a non-fiction literary travel book, Finding Home: In the footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers (Sumach Press, 2004) -- which won the Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Prize in Canadian Jewish History (Canadian Jewish Book Awards 2005), and was shortlisted for ForeWord Magazine Prize's 2004 Book of the Year Awards Essay and History category, 2004.
Her second novel Slanderous Tongue (Sumach Press, 2007) is a social critical murder-mystery set in a village in France.
Culiner speaks to groups across Canada, the United States, France and Israel about various aspects of European Jewish history.
Jill Culiner was born in New York City in 1945, and as an infant, she moved with her parents moved to Toronto. She is a Canadian citizen. She lives in France.