Charlotte Mendel, Writer

February 2026

Charlotte Mendel was born in Nova Scotia and spent many years travelling around the world, working in France, England, Turkey, Israel and India. She is the author of Turn Us Again (Roseway/Fernwood, 2013), which won the H.R. Percy Novel Prize, the Beacon Award for Social Justice, and the Atlantic Book Award in the Margaret and John Savage First Book category. Her second novel, A Hero (Inanna Publications, 2015) was shortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and was a Finalist in the 2016 International Book Awards in the General Fiction category. Charlotte’s first YA novel, “Reversing Time” was published by Guernica Editions in 2021 and her latest, a literary fiction book entitled “A Hostage”, was published by Inanna in 2023.