Lawrence Hill

writer

Lawrence Hill's third novel was published as *The Book of Negroes* in Canada, Great Britain, South Africa and India and as *Someone Knows My Name* in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It won the overall Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize, the Ontario Library Associations Evergreen Award and CBC Radios Canada Reads. Hill won the National Magazine Award for the best essay published in Canada in 2005 for "Is Africa's Pain Black America's Burden?" (The Walrus, February 2005). In 2005, the 90-minute film document that Hill wrote, *Seeking Salvation: A History of the Black Church in Canada, Travesty Productions, Toronto* (2004), won the American Wilbur Award for best national television documentary. Formerly a reporter with *The Globe* and *Mail* and parliamentary correspondent for *The Winnipeg Free Press*, Hill also speaks French and Spanish.