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Monique Gray Smith's YA book Speaking Our Truth nominated for Forest Of Reading award
The nonfiction work delves into the history and future of Indigenous-settler relations in Canada.
Maryse Condé awarded New Prize in Literature, the 'alternate Nobel'
Condé is a fiction writer from the French Caribbean archipelago Guadeloupe. Her books include Victoire: My Mother's Mother, Segu, Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? and I, Tituba.
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