Redhill wins Toronto Book Awards
Award won on eve of Man Booker announcement
5 September 2007
The poet, playwright and novelist, Michael Redhill, was today named the winner of the 2007 Toronto Book Awards for his novel Consolation. Established by City Council in 1974, the Toronto Book Awards are part of Toronto’s commitment to literacy, and honour authors of books of literary or artistic merit that are evocative of Toronto.
Redhill will receive an award totalling $11,000 CAD. He is the author of the acclaimed novel Martin Sloane - winner of a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize - and the short-story collection Fidelity. He is also publisher and co-editor - with Michael Ondaatje - of the literary magazine Brick. His poetry collections include Asphodel and Light-Crossing.
Consolation is one of thirteen titles on the longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The Man Booker shortlist is announced tomorrow (Thursday 6th September).
For more information about the Toronto Book Awards please visit www.toronto.ca/book_awards/
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