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About Martha Blum
- Martha Blum (June 30, 1913 – December 12, 2007) was a Ukrainian-born Canadian writer.The daughter of Dr.
- Abraham Guttmann and Susi Herschmann, she was born Martha Guttmann in Czernowitz, Austria (later Chernivtsi, Ukraine) and grew up there.
- Czernowitz became part of Romania at the end of World War I.
- She studied pharmacy and chemistry at the Charles University in Prague, at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and at the University of Strasbourg in France.
- When Germany invaded her country in the early 1940s, she was held in a labour camp.
- At the end of World War II, she went to Israel with her husband Richard Blum and her daughter Irene.
- In 1951, Blum came to Canada.
- The family settled in Saskatoon in 1954.
- She worked as a pharmacist and vocal coach.In 1999, at the age of 86, she published her first novel, The Walnut Tree, based on her experiences during the war and afterwards.
- It won the Saskatchewan Book Award and the Brenda MacDonald Riches First Book Award.
- In 2003, she published a collection of short stories Children of Paper.
- Blum published a novel in 2006, The Apothecary, which continued the stories of characters from her first novel.
- It also received a Saskatchewan Book Award.She died of heart failure at the age of 94.
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