Winnie Yeung

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Winnie Yeung is a Canadian school teacher and writer who co-wrote Homes: A Refugee Story with high school student Abu Bakr Al-Rabeeah. [1]

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In 2010, Iraqi student Al-Rabeeah moved with his family to Homs, Syria, but they were soon forced to move again due to the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War. [2] He and his family moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 2014, where Yeung was his English as a second language teacher. [3] She encouraged him to tell his own life stories as a way to practice English and began recording them. [2]

Homes

The co-authored memoir was self-published in 2016, before being picked up for commercial republication by Freehand Books in 2018. [4]

It was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards, [5] and for the 2019 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. [6] It was selected for the 2019 edition of Canada Reads , where it was defended by Chuck Comeau. [7]

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