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Writer of the heart-wrenching and personal novel story regarding a writer’s ordeal with her suicidal sister, Miriam Towes, was awarded the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for “All My Puny Sorrows” Tuesday night. According to Towes, “it’s a book I would have chosen not to have to write,” adding that she was “surprised” and “grateful” about her win.
The Rogers Writers’ Trust gala is one of the most prestigious events for Canadian literary fraternity. A total of six awards were handed over by The Writers’ Trust of Canada that summed up to approximately $139,000. These awards were distributed among authors, both new and veteran, that belonged to a range of literary styles. The other finalists included André Alexis for Pastoral, Steven Galloway for The Confabulist, K.D. Miller for All Saints and Carrie Snyder for Girl Runner. All of them received $2,500 each. These finalists were chosen by jury members out of a total of 127 books from 52 publishers.
Poet Ken Babstock was the inaugural winner of the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, also worth $25,000, which recognizes a writer’s exceptional body of work. In addition to that, three other “body of work” awards were handed out. Whereas Manitoba’s Joan Thomas was awarded the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award worth $25,000 and poet and writer, Susan Musgrave, received Matt Cohen Award: Celebration of a Writing Life, worth $20,000. Lastly, children’s book writer, Cary Fagan, was also awarded $20,000 Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People.
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