Source: www.cbc.ca - Tuesday, November 03, 2015
The Writers' Trust of Canada gave out six major literary awards, totalling $139,000, at their annual awards ceremony in Toronto on November 3, 2015. André Alexis - who is also a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize - won the $25,000 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for his novel Fifteen Dogs . The jury called Fifteen Dogs "a beautifully written allegory for our times" and said it is "an original and vital work written by a master craftsman: philosophy given a perfect form." Alexis was recently on The Next Chapter discussing how he wrote Fifteen Dogs : The other finalists were His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay, Red Jacket by Pamela Mordecai, Confidence by Russell Smith and The Jaguar's Children by John Valliant. Annabel Lyon received the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award. The $25,000 prize is awarded to a mid-career writer for his or her entire body of work. Lyon's novels include 2009's The Golden Mean , which was a finalist for all three major fiction prizes in Canada, and its 2012 sequel, The Sweet Girl . Past recipients of the Engel/Findley Award include Michael Winter, Miriam Toews, Lisa Moore and Nino Ricci. In 2012, Annabel Lyon spoke to The Next Chapter about The Sweet Girl : Richard Wagamese won the Matt Cohen Award. The $20,000 prize is given out each year to an author whose professional career has been dedicated to writing as a primary pursuit. The jury said, "Richard Wagamese has become a vital voice in Canadian
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