January 5, 2012

 A round up of the 2011 literary prize scene

Plain Kate by Erin Bow won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.

The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj was this year’s winner at the Toronto Book Awards ceremony. Maharaj was also the winner of the Trillium English Language Fiction Prize.

Patrick deWitt’s oft-nominated novel The Sisters’ Brothers was the winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and The Governor General's Literary Award.

Charles Foran was the recipient of the inaugural Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Non-Fiction for his biography of celebrated Canadian writer Mordecai Richler. Foran also won the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction.

Esi Edugyan won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Half Blood Blues.

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