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Kevin Hardcastle’s short-story collection Debris, a gritty, often violent debut that drew parallels to the work of Elmore Leonard and David Adams Richards when it was published last September, has won the 2016 Trillium Book Award.
The winner for the Trillium Book Award in French-language is:
Véronique-Marie Kaye, Marjorie Chalifoux (Éditions Prise de parole)
This year’s English-language winner for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry is:
Soraya Peerbaye, Tell: poems for a girlhood (Pedlar Press)
The winner for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in French-language is:
David Ménard, Neuvaines (Les Éditions L’Interligne)
“I am delighted to recognize the great talent of this year’s Trillium Book Award winners. Their work gives us so much — both as a fundamental part of our creative economy, and by telling the stories of who we are as Ontarians. I want to thank the authors for contributing to the rich cultural fabric of our province, and their publishers for helping to make it possible.”
– Eleanor McMahon, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport
“The Trillium Book Award honours the contribution of Ontario’s talented authors to the cultural and economic well-being of our province. Congratulations to this year’s winners and all of the finalists and their publishers who play such a vital role in ensuring that we can share our collective stories with the world.”
– Mark Sakamoto, Chair, Ontario Media Development Corporation
Agencies/Canadajournal
