Several authors from the Quad Counties have taken home Atlantic Book Awards.
The late “Silver” Donald Cameron, a native of Richmond Co., posthumously received the Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction for “Blood on the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes”, the story of the 2013 murder of Phillip Boudreau in the waters off Petit-de-Grat.
Anne Simpson, an instructor in the StFX English department, won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for “Speechless.”
The award, which comes with a $25,000 prize, is one of the country’s richest literary honours.
“Dirty Birds”, the debut novel by Morgan Murray of Mabou, was named best Atlantic-published book.
Inverness’ Tom Ryan won the Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature Award for “Keep this to Yourself.”
