Reading her poems sharpens our own connection with the world." - John Steffler For Peerbaye words connect lives across time and space. "These are marvellous poems, deft, rich, searching, and with remarkable range: tender in recalling her father's French and Creole roots, spare and brilliant in depicting the landscape of Antarctica. Peerbaye as a companion-poet is quietly deft, her voice ranging from lyrical to musical plain-speaking." - Arc Poetry Magazine has an ear for languages and how it shapes experience. The poetry prize recognizes literary achievement for a first, second or third published work of poetry."A sense of place and story dominates this first collection. Previous winners of the Trillium Book Award have included Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Austin Clarke and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Poetry winners each receive $10,000, and their publisher $2,000 for promotion of the titles. Recipients of the Trillium Book Award receive $20,000, and their respective publishers receive $2,500 to promote the winning titles.
The French-language book prize was awarded to Veronique-Marie Kaye for “Marjorie Chalifoux” (Editions Prise de parole) with David Menard receiving the poetry prize for “Neuvaines” (Les Editions L’Interligne.)
Author Kevin Hardcastle is shown in a handout photo.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO Peerbaye was also a finalist for this year’s Griffin Poetry Prize.
Peerbaye received the poetry prize for her collection “Tell: poems for a girlhood” (Pedlar Press), which was based on the case of slain Vancouver Island teen Reena Virk. He was recently shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for short fiction. Hardcastle was awarded the prize in the book category for his debut short story collection “Debris” (Biblioasis), about the lives of those existing on the fringes of society. TORONTO – Toronto authors Kevin Hardcastle and Soraya Peerbaye are the English-language winners of the 2016 Trillium Book Award honouring Ontario-based writers. This article was published (2523 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
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