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Rhea Tregebov's novel Rue des Rosiers (Coteau 2019) won the Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction (Western Canada Jewish Book Awards) in 2020. Fired from a job in Toronto, a young woman accepts an opportunity to stay in Paris, hoping to find new direction and purpose. Searching for her own identity in 1982, she comes face-to-face with the terror of an age-old enemy when she reads the writing on the wall above her local Metro subway station: death to the Jews. Soon shadows from her childhood emerge once more.
Tregebov's previous novel The Knife Sharpener's Bell (2009) is the story of a girl who leaves Winnipeg at age ten with her parents to escape from the faltering of the North American capitalist economy in the 1930s. They return "home" to Stalinist Odessa, then must flee to Moscow to avoid the approaching Nazi forces in World War II. In the post-war years their family is threatened by anti-Semitism and the repressive totalitarianism of Stalin. This novel received the J.I. Segal Award.
Born in Saskatoon in 1953 and raised in Winnipeg, Rhea Tregebov moved from Toronto to Vancouver in September of 2004 to commence teaching as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in January of 2005. She retired in 2017. Now Professor Emerita, Tregebov has published five children's picture books including The Big Storm. She is the editor of various anthologies of essays, poetry and fiction, including Gifts: Poems for Parents (Sumach Press, 2002). Her first collection of poetry, Remembering History, received the Pat Lowther Award in 1983. Her fifth and sixth poetry collections are The Strength of Materials (Wolsak and Wynn, 2001) and a volume entitled (alive): Selected and New Poems (Wolsak and Wynn, 2004).
An extensive overview of Tregebov’s poetry concerning her Jewish legacy and the Holocaust has been provided by Donna Hollenberg in Canadian Jewish Studies Vol 11 (2003). Poems such as "Vienna, November 1983" (No One We Know) and "Kristallnacht, 1988 and "DPs" (Mapping the Chaos) reflect Holocaust themes.
SEE PRISM INTERVIEW: http://prismmagazine.ca/2013/02/04/three-questions-with-prism-poetry-contest-judge-rhea-tregebov/
BOOKS:
Rue des Rosiers (Coteau 2019)
All Souls' (Vehicule Press 2012) $18.99 978-1-55065-338-0 Poetry
The Knife Sharpener's Bell (Coteau 2009) 978-1-55050-408-8 Novel
Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (Sumach Press, 2007) Editor.
(alive): Selected and New Poems (Wolsak and Wynn, 2004) Poetry
The Strength of Materials (Wolsak and Wynn, 2001) Poetry
What-If Sara (1999) Children's
Sasha and the Wind (1996) 0-929005-51-1 Children's
Mapping the Chaos (Vehicule Press, 1995) Poetry
Sasha and the Wiggly Tooth (1993) Children's
The Big Storm (1992) Children's
The Extraordinary Everything Room (1991) Children's
The Proving Grounds (Vehicule Press, 1991) Poetry
The Extraordinary Everything Room (1991) Children's
No One We Knew (Stratford, Ontario: Aya/Mercury Press, 1986) Poetry
Remembering History (Guernica, 1982) Poetry
Awards:
Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction, 2020
Co-winner, Malahat Long Poem Competition, 1994.
Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award, 1994.
Pat Lowther Award, for Remembering History, 1983.
[BCBW 2020] Alan Twigg / Holocaust Lit
Tregebov's previous novel The Knife Sharpener's Bell (2009) is the story of a girl who leaves Winnipeg at age ten with her parents to escape from the faltering of the North American capitalist economy in the 1930s. They return "home" to Stalinist Odessa, then must flee to Moscow to avoid the approaching Nazi forces in World War II. In the post-war years their family is threatened by anti-Semitism and the repressive totalitarianism of Stalin. This novel received the J.I. Segal Award.
Born in Saskatoon in 1953 and raised in Winnipeg, Rhea Tregebov moved from Toronto to Vancouver in September of 2004 to commence teaching as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in January of 2005. She retired in 2017. Now Professor Emerita, Tregebov has published five children's picture books including The Big Storm. She is the editor of various anthologies of essays, poetry and fiction, including Gifts: Poems for Parents (Sumach Press, 2002). Her first collection of poetry, Remembering History, received the Pat Lowther Award in 1983. Her fifth and sixth poetry collections are The Strength of Materials (Wolsak and Wynn, 2001) and a volume entitled (alive): Selected and New Poems (Wolsak and Wynn, 2004).
An extensive overview of Tregebov’s poetry concerning her Jewish legacy and the Holocaust has been provided by Donna Hollenberg in Canadian Jewish Studies Vol 11 (2003). Poems such as "Vienna, November 1983" (No One We Know) and "Kristallnacht, 1988 and "DPs" (Mapping the Chaos) reflect Holocaust themes.
SEE PRISM INTERVIEW: http://prismmagazine.ca/2013/02/04/three-questions-with-prism-poetry-contest-judge-rhea-tregebov/
BOOKS:
Rue des Rosiers (Coteau 2019)
All Souls' (Vehicule Press 2012) $18.99 978-1-55065-338-0 Poetry
The Knife Sharpener's Bell (Coteau 2009) 978-1-55050-408-8 Novel
Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers (Sumach Press, 2007) Editor.
(alive): Selected and New Poems (Wolsak and Wynn, 2004) Poetry
The Strength of Materials (Wolsak and Wynn, 2001) Poetry
What-If Sara (1999) Children's
Sasha and the Wind (1996) 0-929005-51-1 Children's
Mapping the Chaos (Vehicule Press, 1995) Poetry
Sasha and the Wiggly Tooth (1993) Children's
The Big Storm (1992) Children's
The Extraordinary Everything Room (1991) Children's
The Proving Grounds (Vehicule Press, 1991) Poetry
The Extraordinary Everything Room (1991) Children's
No One We Knew (Stratford, Ontario: Aya/Mercury Press, 1986) Poetry
Remembering History (Guernica, 1982) Poetry
Awards:
Nancy Richler Memorial Prize for Fiction, 2020
Co-winner, Malahat Long Poem Competition, 1994.
Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award, 1994.
Pat Lowther Award, for Remembering History, 1983.
[BCBW 2020] Alan Twigg / Holocaust Lit
