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Why they are here
He told the slave trade through one woman's life, and the country read it together — Canada Reads winner, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and a CBC series.
Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist best known for The Book of Negroes, which follows the slave trade through the life of one woman.
It won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and CBC's Canada Reads in 2009, and was adapted as a six-part CBC series.
It won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and CBC's Canada Reads in 2009, and was adapted as a six-part CBC series.
- CBC Books — 7 books to read after watching CBC's Enslaved
- Room Magazine — Black History Month: our favourite Canadian writers
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