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1 Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill’s sweeping historical novel The Book of Negroes
(HarperCollins) appeared in 2007 to widespread critical acclaim. It went
on to win the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Overall Book and the
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. It also won the 2009 edition of CBC
Radio’s Canada Reads. The book is essentially about the movement
of slaves—across oceans, across borders and across time. Infused in the
often graphic, often violent and occasionally hopeful story is Hill’s
reminder that the history of Black people in Canada runs much deeper than
the Underground Railroad. Slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and race riots are
inconvenient, little known facts of Canadian history.
His 1997 novel, Any Known Blood, concerns the son of a black
father and a white mother who sets out on an odyssey through five
generations of his black Canadian family. The polemical memoir, Black
Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black And White in Canada, is an insight
into Lawrence Hill’s feelings about his own bi-racial background.
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