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Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa takes home $20K Trillium Book Award
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Jun 15, 2021 at 8:28 pm EDT
TORONTO Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa is adding Ontario’s top literary prize to her trophy case.
Thammavongsa was awarded the Trillium Book Award for “How to Pronounce Knife,” published by McClelland & Stewart.
The Toronto-based writer’s debut book of short stories won the Giller last fall. Thammavongsa was also recognized with a Trillium prize in 2013 for an early work of poetry.
Danièle Vallée’s “Sept nuits dans la vie de Chérie,” published by Éditions David, took the French-language Trillium Book Award.