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Sarah Klassen is a Canadian writer and retired educator living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Klassen's first volume of poetry, Journey to Yalta, was awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1989. Klassen is the recipient of Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and Klassen's novel, The Wittenbergs, was awarded the Margaret McWilliams Award for popular history.

Career
Sarah Klassen was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently resides there. A subject of Klassen's writing (in Journey to Yalta, The Wittenbergs and The Russian Daughter) is the experiences and locations of Russian Mennonite settlements in the early part of the twentieth century, a topic relayed to her in stories by her own mother. Sarah Klassen has served as poetry editor for Prairie Fire and editor of Sophia magazine. ==Bibliography==
Awards
• Winner, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, 1989 (Journey to Yalta) • Winner, Margaret McWilliams Award for Popular History, 2013 (The Wittenbergs) • Winner, High Plains Book Award, 2008 (A Feast of Longing) • Winner, Poetry, Word Guild, 2013 (Monstrance) • Short-listed, Margaret Laurence Award, 2001 (The Peony Season), 2008 (A Feast of Longing), 2014 (The Wittenbergs), 2023 (The Russian Daughter) • Winner, Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize, 2007 (A Curious Beatitude) • Gold, The National Magazine Award for Poetry, 1991 • Silver, The National Magazine Award for Poetry, 2017 • Shortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (Violence and Mercy, Dangerous Elements, Simone Weil: Songs of Hunger and Love, and Monstrance) • Nominated, Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry ==References==
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