Helen Weinzweig

Helen Weinzweig (1915–2010), née Tenenbaum, 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. She published her first short story, "Surprise!", in Canadian Forum in 1967, ), Toronto, Ottawa, and Hamilton. Several of Weinzweig's short stories in A View from the Roof were later adapted for stage and CBC Radio broadcast by playwright Dave Carley.

Weinzweig died in 2010, aged 94.

Works Passing Ceremony (1973) Basic Black with Pearls (1981) in German, transl. Brigitte Jakobeit: Schwarzes Kleid mit Perlen. Wagenbach, Berlin 2019 My mother's luck (1983) A View from the Roof (1989) Nero e perle (1994)

Archive Helen Weinzweig papers, Coll. 1945–2003 at the library, University of Toronto