Norman Ravvin

Norman Ravvin’s books have won prizes across Canada. His novels include The Joyful Child, Café des Westens, and Lola by Night, which also appeared in Serbian translation. A story collection Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish, won the Ontario Arts Council K. M. Hunter Prize, and his travel essays are collected in Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue. He has traveled often to his family’s prewar home in Poland, and this experience informs his writing. He lives in Montreal. Author website: normanravvin.com