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Lawrence Hill

(1957) Writer Canada

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Lawrence Hill is a writer from Canada, best known for Book of Negroes.

Quick Facts About Lawrence Hill

Born
January 24, 1957
Nationality
Canada
Profession
Writer
Notable works
Book of Negroes

About Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes, inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War, and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. The Book of Negroes was adapted for a TV mini-series produced in 2015. He was selected in 2013 for the Massey Lectures: he drew from his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life, published that year. His ten books include other non-fiction and fictional works, and some have been translated into other languages and published in numerous other countries.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Canada's Walk of Fame Molson Prize Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Commonwealth Writers' Prize Member of the Order of Canada Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo

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