Helen Weinzweig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Helen Weinzweig

Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 11-May-1915

Place of Birth: Radom, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 11-Feb-2010

Profession: novelist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Helen Weinzweig (1915–2010) was a Canadian writer.
The author of two novels and a short story collection, her novel Basic Black with Pearls won the Toronto Book Award in 1981, and her short story collection A View from the Roof was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1989.Born in Poland in 1915, she emigrated to Canada at age nine with her mother, and married composer John Weinzweig on July 12, 1940.
She published her first short story, "Surprise!", in Canadian Forum in 1967, and her debut novel Passing Ceremony was published in 1973.
She came to be regarded as one of Canada's first important feminist writers.
Her style was marked by experimental forms with some aspects of metafiction; in her short story "Journey to Porquis", a writer on a train trip realizes that all of his fellow passengers are characters in his novel.Weinzweig also wrote and produced a one-act play, My Mother's Luck, and several of her short stories in A View from the Roof were adapted for stage and CBC Radio broadcast by playwright Dave Carley.Weinzweig died in 2010, aged 94.