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Helen Weinzweig
- Name
- Helen Weinzweig
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Source
- Oral Histories
- Name
- Helen Weinzweig
- Number
- OH 106
- Subject
- Feminists
- Award winners
- Authors
- Quantity
- 2 cassettes (1 copy)
- Interviewer
- Miriam Beckerman
- Total Running Time
- OH106_001: 30.07 minutes OH106_002: 07.06 minutes
- Conservation
- Copied August 2003 Digitized 2014
- Use Restrictions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Biography
- Helen Weinzweig was born in Poland in 1915. She married John Weinzweig, a well-known Canadian composer, and had two sons, Paul and Daniel. While she only completed four years at high school, she was an avid reader and self-educated. Weinzweig authored short stories and novels, won the Toronto Book Award in 1981, and was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1989. She was regarded as one of Canada's first important feminist writers, and her style was marked by experimental forms with some aspects of metafiction. Helen also wrote and produced a one-act play, and several of her short stories were adapted for stage and CBC Radio. Weinzweig died in 2010, aged ninety-four.
- Material Format
- sound recording
- Language
- English
- Name Access
- Weinzweig, John, 1913-2006
- Geographic Access
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Original Format
- Audio cassette
- Copy Format
- Audio cassette
- Digital file
- Transcript
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 106 - Weinzweig\OH106_001_Log.pdf
- G:\Description\Oral Histories\OH 106 - Weinzweig\OH106_002_Log.pdf
- Source
- Oral Histories