Adele Wiseman
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Adele Wiseman (21 May 1928 – 1 June 1992) was a Canadian author.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she received a B.A. from the University of Manitoba in 1949. Her parents were Russian-Jews who emigrated from the Ukraine to Canada, in part, to escape the pogroms that accompanied the Russian Civil War.
In 1956, Wiseman published her first novel, The Sacrifice, which won the Governor General's Award, Canada's most prestigious literary prize. Her only other novel, Crackpot, was published in 1974. Both novels deal with Jewish immigrant heritage, the struggle to survive the Depression and World War II, and the challenges the next generation faced in acculturating to Canadian society.
Wiseman also published plays, children's stories, essays, and other non-fiction. Her book, Old Woman at Play, examines and meditates on the creative process while paying tribute to Wiseman's mother and the dolls she made.
Wiseman was lifelong friends with Margaret Laurence, another Canadian author from Winnipeg. Her nephew, Jacques Distler, is a theoretical physicist.
[edit] Selected works
- The Sacrifice (1956)
- Old Markets, New World (1964)
- Crackpot (1974)
- Old Woman at Play (1978)
- Memoirs of a Book Molesting Childhood and Other Essays (1987)
- Kenji and the Cricket (1988)
- Puccini and the Prowlers (1992)
[edit] References
- Adele Wiseman. York University Libraries.
