Erna Paris
Erna Paris is the author of seven acclaimed books of literary non-fiction and the winner of ten national and international writing awards.
Her works include The End of Days: A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, which won the 1996 Canadian Jewish Book Award for History; and Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History, which won the Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize (2001), the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (2001) and the Dorothy Shoichet Prize for History (2001). In 2005, Long Shadows was chosen as one of “The Hundred Most Important Books Ever Written In Canada” by the Literary Review of Canada.
Erna’s most recent work, The Sun Climbs Slow: The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice, was first on the “best book of the year” list (The Globe and Mail 2008) and was shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (2008).