Elaine Kalman Naves (born 1947) is a Hungarian-born Canadian writer, journalist, editor and lecturer from Quebec.
She has twice won the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, in 1999 for Putting Down Roots and in 2003 for Shoshanna's Story.
[citation needed] Naves was born in Hungary in 1947, though her family moved to England in the wake of the Revolution of 1956.
[3] Following graduation from each, she taught English and History at the secondary level, then served as a historian for the Centre d’Étude du Québec of Sir George Williams University.
[3] Montreal Gazette named Shoshanna's Story one of the best books of 2003.