From Montreal to Jerusalem
15 May 2024

Sivan Slapak converses with Lisa Newman about her debut book Here is Still Here on The Yiddish Book Center's podcast, The Shmooze. Listen here

Here is Still Here

Sivan Slapak

May 2024

$22.95 | ISBN: 9781773901466 

 

Sivan Slapak lived in Jerusalem for twenty years before returning to Canada in 2013. Since then, her short fiction and essays have been published by The New Quarterly, Montreal Serai, and carte blanche and in collections published by Véhicule Press and Guernica Editions. She was selected as a finalist for the CBC Quebec Writing Competition, won the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award once and was shortlisted twice. She lives in Montreal, where she works in the arts and culture sector. Here Is Still Here is her first book. 

 

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