Avner Mandelman

Avner Mandelman is an Israeli-Canadian businessman and writer. His debut novel The Debba, published in 2010, won the 2011 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel,^[1] and was a longlisted nominee for the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize.^[2]

Avner Mandelman
Occupation	writer
Nationality	Canadian
Period	2000s-present
Notable works	The Debba
Notable awards	Sophie Brody Award (2006)

A former hedge fund manager in Toronto, Ontario,^[3] Mandelman has also published two short story collections and the investment guide The Sleuth Investor.^[3] His short story collection Talking to the Enemy won the first Sophie Brody Award for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature from the American Library Association in 2006.^[4] Talking to the Enemy, containing stories featured in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize Stories, was recognized as a Best Book of 2005 by Kirkus Reviews and won the J. I. Segal Award for Fiction in 2000.

Works

• Talking to the Enemy (1998, ISBN 9781583227299)
• Cuckoo (2004, ISBN 9780778012382)
• The Sleuth Investor (2007, ISBN 9780071481854)
• The Debba (2010, ISBN 9781590513705)
• The Advanced Sleuth Investor (2023, ISBN 9781738804429)
• The Undertaker's Daughter (2023, ISBN 9781738804450)