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ANNA PORTER was born in Budapest, Hungary, and escaped with her mother during the 1956 Revolution to New Zealand. In 1968 she arrived in Canada and was soon swept up in the cultural explosion of the 1970s. In 1982 she founded Key Porter Books and published such national figures as Farley Mowat, Jean Chrétien, Conrad Black, and Allan Fotheringham. She went on to write both fiction and non-fiction works, including Kasztner’s Train, which won the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Jewish Book Award, and The Ghosts of Europe, which won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. She has published four mystery novels.
Porter is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Order of Ontario. She lives in Toronto with her husband, Julian Porter.
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