Meet the Author: Heather Camlot, 2023 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards winner

The Miles Nadal JCC and the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards proudly present
A Meet the Author Event
Featuring Heather Camlot, 2023 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards winner

“My only crime is to have been born a Jew” – Captain Alfred Dreyfus. The notorious Dreyfus Affair – France’s turn-of-the-century political scandal that falsely accused and imprisoned a Jewish army captain – may have happened 125 years ago, but its themes of anti-Semitism and media bias remain just as relevant today. Meet award-winning children’s author and journalist Heather Camlot, learn about her research, writing process and purchase autographed copies of The Prisoner and The Writer. Join us in-person at the Miles Nadal JCC or virtually!

Co-presented by the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards. Presented in partnership with The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies.
This event is presented in partnership with Toronto Public Library as part of its Jewish Heritage Series. 

Sunday May 5
2:00-3:30pm
Admission: FREE – registration is required

This program is suitable for adults and children aged 12+

Heather Camlot is an award-winning children’s author, journalist, editor and translator. After 15 years in journalism — writing, editing and translating for various publications, including Quill & Quire, Owl, TV Guide Canada and Style at Home — she longed to get back to fiction. She has written five nonfiction books and two novels for middle-grade readers, including: Clutch, named a 2017 Best Book from Kirkus Reviews and a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People; What If Soldiers Fought with Pillows? True Stories of Imagination and Determination, I Can’t Do What? Strange Laws and Rules from Around the World, Secret Schools: True Stories of the Determination to Learn, and The Prisoner and the Writer, the story of wrongly imprisoned Captain Alfred Dreyfus and author Emile Zola’s fight to have him set free. Her next nonfiction book, Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science is Making Us Super, will be released this spring. Heather is also a longtime volunteer with the Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP). Born and raised in Montreal, Heather lives in Toronto with her husband, two teenagers and rescue dog. For more information, visit https://heathercamlot.com/

Now celebrating its ninth year, the Canadian Jewish Literary Awards recognizes the finest books with Jewish themes and subjects by Canadian authors in a variety of genres. The Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, including the Irving Abella Award, are judged by an independent jury, who this year have selected winners in the categories of fiction, biography/memoir, poetry, history, Jewish Thought and Culture, Yiddish, scholarship, Holocaust, and books for children and youth, as well as two special awards. This year’s award winners represent all parts of Canada and the world. They share their talents and insights in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Nova Scotia, Hamilton, Boston, Texas, Israel, and Australia. The Awards are administered through York University’s Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. For more information, please visit www.cjlawards.ca

Notes: The Israel & Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University is Canada’s first interdisciplinary research centre in Jewish Studies. It brings together a vibrant community of scholars, teachers, and advanced students to promote cutting-edge research in the field. Since its inception in 1989, CJS has pursued a mission of not only fostering Jewish Studies research within the university but also enhancing the teaching of Jewish Studies. It is also committed to engaging the broader community and helping to prepare individuals for careers of service in professions related to Jewish Studies. CJS supports a variety of initiatives that help our students learn about the Jewish people in order to promote understanding of Jewish culture among the larger public. Its activities include visiting professorships, guest lectures, research workshops, academic symposia, public cultural events, student scholarships and prizes, and the building of a Jewish Studies reference and research collection. It also administers York’s Graduate Diploma in Jewish Studies and the Jewish Teacher Education Program, which combines a BA with a BEd, as well as works collaboratively with York’s B.A. Program in Jewish Studies. For more information, visit https://www.yorku.ca/cjs/about-the-centre/