Novelist Colin McAdam has won the 2013 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for his third novel, A Beautiful Truth (Hamish Hamilton Canada), at a ceremony in Toronto last night. The novel tells the parallel stories of a couple who adopt a chimpanzee, and the primates at a Florida research institute.
The $25,000 prize is McAdam’s first major Canadian literary award win, although he received critical praise for his first two novels, Some Great Thing (2004) and Fall (2009).
Cityline Book Club author Lisa Moore was also nominated for the Fiction Prize for her novel Caught, but she instead took home the Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award. The prize, which is also worth $25,000, recognizes a mid-career writer for his or her body of work.
Here is the full list of prize winners:
- Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize:Colin McAdam, Some Great Truth (Hamish Hamilton Canada)
- Writers’ Trust of Canada / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize:Naben Ruthnum, “Cinema Rex” (The Malahat Review)
- Writers’ Trust Engel/Findley Award:Lisa Moore
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People:Barbara Reid
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life:Andrew Nikiforuk
- Writers’ Trust Distinguished Contribution Award:McClelland & Stewart
Have you read A Beautiful Truth or any of Colin McAdam’s previous books? Will you be checking it out now that it won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize? Let us know in the comments below!