Erna Paris, a frequent contributor to opinion pages of The Globe and Mail, was the author of seven acclaimed works of literary non-fiction and the winner of twelve national and international writing awards for her books, feature writing, and radio documentaries. Her works were published in fourteen countries and translated into eight languages. They included The End of Days: A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1995); Long Shadows: Truth, Lies, and History (2000), which won the Pearson Writers Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the inaugural Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing; The Sun Climbs Slow: The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice (2008); and From Tolerance to Tyranny: A Cautionary Tale From Fifteenth-Century Spain (2015). Appointed to the Order of Canada in 2015, she was also a member of the Canada Committee of Human Rights Watch; a vice-president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association; and a past chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada. She completed the manuscript of this book shortly before she died of cancer in February 2022.
Erna Paris takes readers on a deeply personal exploration of how history is remembered, manipulated, and lived.
