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The Trillium Book Award

The Ontario government established the Trillium Book Award in 1987 to recognize excellence, support marketing and foster increased public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing.

This prestigious Award is the province’s leading award for literature. The quality of Ontario authors and writing speaks for itself with the international acclaim achieved by past Trillium winners including Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Timothy Findley and Anne Michaels.

The award given to the author of each winning book is $20,000 and their publishers receive $2,500 for the marketing and promotion of the titles.

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2011 English Winner

The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj.

Other finalists included Emma Donoghue for Room, James FitzGerald for his memoir What Disturbs Our Blood, Ken Sparling for his experimental novel Book, Paul Vermeersch for his fourth poetry collection, The Reinvention of the Human Hand; and Michael Winter for his work of documentary fiction The Death of Donna Whalen.

Previous Winners

2010: The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown