Vancouver author wins LGBT book prize for One Hundred Days of Rain
Jane van Koeverden | CBC | Posted: July 18, 2017 6:22 PM | Last Updated: July 18, 2017
Vancouver author Carellin Brooks has won the Publishing Triangle's 2016 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction for her novel One Hundred Days of Rain.
The Publishing Triangle offers annual awards for the best fiction, nonfiction, poetry and debut fiction by LGBT writers.
Brooks, the sole Canadian winner this year, will take home a $1,000 prize. One Hundred Days of Rain follows an unnamed narrator's attempts at picking herself up after a difficult breakup.
Brooks beat out Greek writer Ioannis Pappos (Hotel Living) and American writers Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (Blue Talk and Love) and Tanwi Nandini Islam (Bright Lines) for the prize.
Find the full lists of winners and finalists here.