Stuart Ross, shown in a handout photo, took home the $20,000 Trillium Book Award on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 for "The Book of Grief and Hamburgers." THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Barry Roden **MANDATORY CREDIT**
Republished June 21, 2023 - 8:40 AM
Original Publication Date June 20, 2023 - 5:16 PM
TORONTO - An unflinching meditation on loss and mortality has won Ontario's top book prize.
Stuart Ross took home the $20,000 Trillium Book Award on Tuesday night for "The Book of Grief and Hamburgers."
Ross wrote the book — which is described as a hybrid between essays, memoir and poetry — after his brother died and his closest friend was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Meanwhile the $10,000 Trillium Book Award for Poetry went to Sanna Wani for "My Grief, the Sun."
Gilles Lacombe won the French-language Trillium Book Award, also worth $20,000, for "Circé des hirondelles."
"Le secret de Paloma" by Michèle Laframboise was awarded the $10,000 prize for the best French-language children's book.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 20, 2023.
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