Kenneth Bonert
Kenneth Bonert | |
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Born | Johannesburg |
Occupation | novelist, short stories |
Nationality | South African/Canadian |
Period | 2000s-present |
Notable works | The Lion Seeker |
Kenneth Bonert is a South African-Canadian writer. His debut novel The Lion Seeker won both the 2013 National Jewish Book Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction[1][2] and the 2013 Edward Lewis Wallant Award.[3] The Lion Seeker was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2013 Governor General's Award for English-language Fiction,[4] and the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.[5] Bonert's second novel, The Mandela Plot, was released in 2018.
Originally from Johannesburg, Bonert moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1989.[4]
Bonert has previously published short stories, including the Journey Prize nominee "Packers and Movers", as well as a novella, Peacekeepers, 1995, which appeared in McSweeney's.[6]
References[]
- ^ "NJBA winners list 2013". Archived from the original on February 11, 2014. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
- ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
- ^ "Wallant Award Winners". Archived from the original on March 8, 2014. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
- ^ a b "Kenneth Bonert's Jewish South African novel up for Governor General's prize". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, October 2, 2013.
- ^ "Amazon First Novel Award list". Retrieved 7 March 2014.
- ^ "On Writing, with Kenneth Bonert" Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine. Open Book Toronto, February 26, 2013.
External links[]
- Kenneth Bonert at Random House Canada
Categories:
- Canadian male novelists
- South African male novelists
- Canadian male short story writers
- South African male short story writers
- South African short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- South African emigrants to Canada
- Jewish Canadian writers
- Writers from Toronto
- People from Johannesburg
- South African Jews
- Living people
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian writer stubs