{"id":14746,"date":"2022-01-22T21:36:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T02:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=14746"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:35:44","slug":"rima-elkouri","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/rima-elkouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Rima Elkouri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rima Elkouri is a writer, journalist and columnist for La Presse<\/em> in Montreal. A Montrealer since birth, Elkouri writes in French. Most of her works have not been translated into English. The exception is Manam<\/em>, her first novel that was published in French in 2019. Elkouri’s heritage is partially Armenian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Manam: A Novel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott.
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2021.
Translation of: Manam.
PS8609.L533 M3613 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

L\u00e9a is a teacher. She does not believe in silence and secrecy, and this is what she always tells her pupils. Silence isn\u2019t a large part of the inheritance she received from her T\u00e9ta, her beloved Armenian grandmother, who has just died at the age of one hundred and seven. Regularly over the years her large Armenian family would gather around T\u00e9ta, and she would tell stories. But there is one story that she refused to tell. As soon as L\u00e9a brought it up, T\u00e9ta quickly changed the subject. Now L\u00e9a wants to find out and understand the story of her ancestors. She goes to Turkey, and with the help of a Kurdish filmmaker and guide, visits her ancestral village, Manam. She learns that during the Armenian genocide at the beginning of the twentieth century, almost the entire population of Manam was killed or fled to exile in Syria. How did her grandmother and her family survive? Rima Elkouri, with great sensitivity paints the portrait of a family that wills itself to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2022 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize<\/a> (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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