Thursday, June 20, 2013

Alice Munro wins Ontario’s Trillium Book Award

TORONTO — The Canadian Press

Alice Munro attends the opening night of the International Festival of Authors in Toronto in 2009. (CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Alice Munro has won this year’s Trillium Book Award in English-language for Dear Life: Stories, a collection of tales set in the countryside and towns around Lake Huron.

The Trillium Book Award in French-language went to Paul Savoie, for Bleu bemol, a work inspired by music, while this year’s English-language winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry is Matthew Tierney for Probably Inevitable.

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