The awards recognize the best in Canadian books across 7 categories in both English and French. Other winners include Kyo Maclear, Hannah Green and Cliff Cardinal.
The prizes, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, are awarded in seven English-language categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young people's literature text, young people's literature illustration, drama and French-to-English translation.
Robert Antoni’s first novel, Divina Trace , stunned the literary world winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel. Antoni continues to…