Previous winners of the award have included Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Anne Michaels, Austin Clarke and Thomas King to name a few.

This year is the 30th anniversary of the event that saw Michael Ondaatje win for “In The Skin of a Lion” in 1987, a book that took place in Toronto and featured parts on the building of the Bloor-Danforth viaduct. In celebration of the 30 years, previous winners and 2016 finalists will read parts from their books. A highlight for me will be Wayson Choy who will read from The Jade Peony, a book that I read in an English class at UBC in Vancouver 15 years ago.

Here is so far confirmed guests.

Kate Cayley (How You Were Born)
Wayson Choy (All That Matters; The Jade Peony)
Lynn Crosbie (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
Robert Hough (The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan)
Soraya Peerbaye (Tell: poems for a girlhood)
Nino Ricci (Testament)
Damian Rogers (Dear Leader)
Adam Sol (Crowd of Sounds)
Matthew Tierney (Probably Inevitable)

The Trillium Book Award is made possible through grants from the Ontario Media Development Corporation who will also be hosting these author readings in Toronto.

April 25, 2017
7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Tickets to this event are free and can be booked via Eventbrite.

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Each year, Ontario authors and poets in both french and english are honoured with the award that gifts $20,000 for winners, $2500 for their publishers and $500 for all finalists.  Poetry awards see $10,000 to winners and their publishers receive $2,000. Finalists also get $500.

Previous winners of the award have included Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Austin Clarke, Thomas King, Michael Ondaatje, Andrée Lacelle and François Paré.

Here are this year’s finalists. The winners will be announced on June 22nd, 2016.

English-language Finalists for the Trillium Book Award:

• Lynn Crosbie, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, House of Anansi Press
• Andrew Forbes, What You Need, Invisible Publishing
• Kevin Hardcastle, Debris, Biblioasis
• Robert Hough, The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan, House of Anansi Press
• Janette Platana, A Token of My Affliction, Tightrope Books
• Karen Solie, The Road In Is Not The Same Road Out, House of Anansi Press

French-language Finalists for the Trillium Book Award:

• Alain Doom, Un neurinome sur une balançoire, Éditions Prise de parole
• Caroline Durand, Nourrir la machine humaine, McGill-Queen’s University Press
• Véronique-Marie Kaye, Marjorie Chalifoux, Éditions Prise de parole
• Didier Leclair, Pour l’amour de Dimitri, Éditions David
• Carlos Taveira, Mots et marées, tome 2 : Les maux de Marie-Josèphe-Angélique, Les Éditions L’Interligne

Finalists for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in English language:

• Madhur Anand, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes, McClelland and Stewart
• Soraya Peerbaye, Tell: poems for a girlhood, Pedlar Press
• Damian Rogers, Dear Leader, Coach House Books

Finalists for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in French language:

• Sonia Lamontagne, Comptine à rebours, Éditions Prise de parole
• Gilles Latour, Mots qu’elle a faits terre, Les Éditions de L’Interligne
• David Ménard, Neuvaines, Les Éditions L’Interligne

To learn more about the coveted prize, visit their website.

Stay tuned for winners on June 22nd.

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