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]

Teaching

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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

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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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