Poetry has dominated the 2019 Trillium book awards in English, with poets Dionne Brand and Robin Richardson winning prizes, while French honours went to Lisa L’Heureux and Diya Lim. Brand won the English book prize, worth $20,000 for The Blue Clerk (McClelland and Stewart). The book has garnered accolades and nominations, including, interestingly, for the Griffin Poetry Prize (here she wasn’t nominated in the poetry category). In total, 16 Ontario writers were nominated in the four categories, including Miriam Toews for Women Talking and Claudia Dey for Heartbreaker in the English book category. The winners of the poetry and children’s book prizes each receive $10,000, with their publisher receiving $2,000.

Source: thestar June 14, 2019 01:30 UTC