Avner Mandelman

Avner Mandelman is an Israeli-Canadian businessman and writer. His debut novel The Debba, published in 2010, won the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel,[1] and was a longlisted nominee for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize.[2]

Avner Mandelman
Occupationwriter
NationalityCanadian
Period2000s-present
Notable worksThe Debba

A financial industry manager in Toronto, Ontario,[3] Mandelman has also published two short story collections and the investment guide The Sleuth Investor.[3] His short story collection Talking to the Enemy won the first Sophie Brody Award for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature from the American Library Association in 2006.[4] Talking to the Enemy, containing stories featured in The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize Stories, was recognized as a Best Book of 2005 by Kirkus Reviews and won the J. I. Segal Award for Fiction in 2000.

Works
  • Talking to the Enemy (1998, ISBN 978-1583227299)
  • Cuckoo (2004, ISBN 978-0778012382)
  • The Sleuth Investor (2007, ISBN 978-0071481854)
  • The Debba (2010, ISBN 978-1590513705)

References
  1. "Penny, Cameron win Arthur Ellis Awards". The Globe and Mail, June 4, 2011.
  2. "Giller longlist announced". Vancouver Sun, September 21, 2010.
  3. "When assessing a company, check the sparkplugs". The Globe and Mail, July 31, 2010.
  4. "Avner Mandelman receives first Sophie Brody Medal for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature". American Library Association, January 24, 2006.



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