Nora Gold

Nora Gold is a Canadian author and the founder and editor of Jewish Fiction .net. Previously, she was an associate professor of social work. Early life and education Gold grew up in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of the late Alan B. Gold, former chief justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, and Lynn Lubin Gold, a teacher of English literature at Dawson College. Gold holds a bachelor of social work from McGill University and master's degree and doctorate in social work from the University of Toronto. She received seven funded research grants, two from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and two from the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies for international Canada-Israel collaborations. Career Literary Gold's first book, Marrow and Other Stories, was released in 1998 by Warwick Publishing. It received a Canadian Jewish Book Award and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. In 2014, Dundurn Press released Gold's first novel, Fields of Exile, which dealt with the subjects of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. It won the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Best Novel and was praised by Cynthia Ozick and Phyllis Chesler. Two notable reviews of Fields of Exile were written by Ruth Wisse in Mosaic Magazine and by Goldie Morgentaler in Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues. Gold's second novel and third book, The Dead Man, was published in 2016 through Inanna Publications. It received international notice as well as a translation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, which resulted in the 2019 release of The Dead Man published as Ha’ish Hamet in Hebrew. The book was launched on August 14, 2019 at the Official Residence in Tel Aviv of Deborah Lyons, the Canadian ambassador to Israel.