Elaine Kalman Naves

Elaine Kalman Naves (born 1947) is a Hungarian-born Canadian writer, journalist, editor and lecturer from Quebec.

She has twice won the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, in 1999 for Putting Down Roots and in 2003 for Shoshanna's Story. Her 2015 novel The Book of Faith was on the long list in 2016 for The Leacock Award.

Biography Naves was born in Hungary in 1947, though her family moved to England in the wake of the Revolution of 1956. They eventually immigrated to Canada.

Naves attended McGill University, where she studied history, as well as Bishop's University, where she studied education. Following graduation from each, she taught English and History at the secondary level, then served as a historian for the Centre d’Étude du Québec of Sir George Williams University.

Publications Journey to Vaja: Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family (1996, McGill-Queen's University Press, ) Putting Down Roots, Montreal's Immigrant Writers (1998, Press, ) Storied Streets: Montreal in the Literary Imagination, with Bryan Demchinsky (2000, Macfarlane Walter & Ross, ) Shoshanna's Story: A Mother, Daughter, and the Shadows of History (2003, McClelland & Stewart, ) Robert Weaver: Godfather of Canadian Literature (2008, Véhicule Press, ) Portrait of a Scandal: The Trial of Robert Notman (2014, Véhicule Press, ) The Book of Faith (2015, Linda Leith Publishing, ) "Shoshanna. Mère et fille dans les ténèbres de l'histoire", traduit par Chantal Ringuet, Éditions Alias, Groupe Nota Bene, 2017.