Deborah Ellis

Deborah Ellis is a Canadian author.

Early life

Born in Cochrane, Ontario, Canada, Ellis and her family moved several times during her childhood due to her parent's work. Ellis decided to start writing when she was 11–12 years old.

Writing career

Much of her work as a writer has been inspired by her travels and conversations with people from around the world and their stories. She has held many jobs relating to the Anti-war movement.

She travelled to Afghanistan in 1997 to interview refugees in refugee camps. From these interviews, she wrote the four part series which includes The Breadwinner, a book about a girl named Parvana,Parvana's Journey, its sequel, and Mud City, about Shauzia, Parvana's best friend, as well as an adult book, Women of the Afghan War. While The Breadwinner was inspired by an interview with a mother in a refugee camp, the subsequent books in the trilogy were more imaginative explorations of how children would survive.

In 1999, her novel Looking for X was published. It follows a young girl in her day-to-day life in a poor area of Toronto and it received the Governor General's Literary Award in 2000.

Deborah

Deborah (Hebrew: דְּבוֹרָה, Modern Dvora, Tiberian Dəḇôrā ; "Bee") was a prophet of the God of the Israelites, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel, counselor, warrior, and the wife of Lapidoth according to the Book of Judges chapters 4 and 5. The only female judge mentioned in the Bible, Deborah led a successful counterattack against the forces of Jabin king of Canaan and his military commander Sisera; the narrative is recounted in chapter 4.

Judges chapter 5 gives the same story in poetic form. This passage, often called The Song of Deborah, may date to as early as the 12th century BC and is perhaps the earliest sample of Hebrew poetry. It is also significant because it is one of the oldest passages that portrays fighting women, the account being that of Jael, the wife of Heber, a Kenite tent maker. Jael killed Sisera by driving a tent peg through his temple as he slept. Both Deborah and Jael are portrayed as strong independent women. The poem may have been included in the Book of the Wars of the Lord mentioned in Numbers 21:14.

Ellis

Ellis is a first name and surname of English origin. The surname was first recorded in 1202 in Lincolnshire, England.

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