Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill is the author of The Book of Negroes, which won the 2007 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and CBC Canada Reads, and was also made into a six-part TV mini-series. The Illegal won CBC’s Canada Reads and was a national bestseller. Hill’s nonfiction work includes Blood: The Stuff of Life, which was the subject of his 2013 Massey Lectures, and Black Berry, Sweet Juice, a memoir about growing up biracial in Canada. A professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph, he divides his time between Hamilton, Ontario, and Woody Point, Newfoundland.
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“Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes is a work of epic, passionate storytelling, where history charts its course through the singular life of a remarkable woman. Aminata Diallo refuses to be one among the nameless, nor to let the nameless disappear into the invisible spaces of history. ‘Fear no man and come to know him,’ Aminata’s father tells her early in the novel, and Lawrence Hill fearlessly follows this edict. A provocative, humane journey not only across oceans and back again, into homelands both stolen and reclaimed, but into the unfathomable depths of the soul of another.” — 2007 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury (Kevin Major, Kim Moritsugu, and Madeleine Thien)Juror History
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