In 2017, she was named to the Order of Canada. Brand has been awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.īrand served as Toronto’s Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2012. Her latest poetry collection, The Blue Clerk was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Prize. Theory also won the 2019 OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature and was a Globe and Mail Best Book. This year’s Toronto Book Awards Committee consists of volunteer members Sarah Hagi, Canisia Lubrin, Vicky Mochama, Damian Tarnopolsky and Daniel Viola.īrand’s literary credentials are legion. Each shortlisted finalist will receive $1,000, with $10,000 going to the winner. The annual awards offer $15,000 in prize money. Established by City Council in 1974, the awards honour books of literary merit that are evocative of Toronto. This is the 45th year of the Toronto Book Awards. With this wry, beautiful, profoundly philosophical novel, Brand accomplishes something reserved for the most masterful writers of our time.” This protagonist is playful, cunning, honest and self-aware and the book surprises from cover to cover. What many will recognize as love is turned into a dissertation, and by turns, the other way around. Theory delivers a potent dose of meticulous attention to both humour and the seriousness of its subject, so that Toronto comes to each page anew. =1B$B!|=1B(B This Country of Mine by Didier Leclair (Deux Voiliers Publishing)Ĭommenting on the winning novel, the jury said: “In this novel of ideas, Dionne Brand dazzles with smart, jazz-like storytelling and the utterly engrossing voice of its narrator. =1B$B!|=1B(B The Student by Cary Fagan (Freehand Books) =1B$B!|=1B(B Reproduction by Ian Williams (Random House Canada) =1B$B!|=1B(B Be With: Letters to a Caregiver by Mike Barnes (Biblioasis) Brand also won the 2006 Toronto Book Award for her novel What We All Long For.īrand=1B$B!G=1B(Bs novel was chosen from a list of finalists that also included these books and authors: The announcement was made this evening at an awards ceremony held at the Toronto Reference Library. It’s the second time she has won the award. Dionne Brand has been awarded the Toronto Book Award for her novel Theory, published by Knopf Canada.
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