Sarah Klassen

Sarah Klassen (born 6 October 1932) is a Canadian writer and retired educator living in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[4] Sarah Klassen was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently resides there.

Sarah Klassen taught English in the public school system in Winnipeg, and at summer institutes in Lithuania and Ukraine.

[1] Klassen has been recognized as part of a flourishing of Mennonite novelists and poets emerging in the 1980s.

[5] 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 is shown reading from The Russian Daughter at the book's launch at McNally Robinson Boookstore, Winnipeg in 2023. Klassen has short grey hair, glasses, and light coloured skin. They are wearing a collared shirt in a dark red print. They are behind a wooden podium with the words McNally Robinson printed on it. The store's bookshelves are visible behind the reader. So is a banner with the bookstore's logo.
Sarah Klassen reading at the launch of The Russian Daughter at McNally Robinson Bookstore Winnipeg, 19 January 2023.