TORONTO - Authors Barbara Gowdy and Rachel Zolf were named winners Thursday of the 21st annual Trillium Book Awards, Ontario's top literary prize.
Gowdy won for her novel "Helpless" (HarperCollins) while Zolf won the poetry award for her collection "Human Resources" (Coach House Books).
French-language winners were Pierre Raphael Pelletier for "L'Oeil de la lumiere" (Les Editions l'Interligne) and Tina Charlebois for the poetry collection "Poils lisses" (Les Editions l'Interligne).
Winners of the poetry book award, intended for emerging poets, each receive $10,000 and their publishers get $2,000. The other Trillium award winners receive $20,000, and their publishers $2,500.
News from �The Canadian Press, 2008
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