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Toronto Book Awards 2009
Get a New Read on Toronto

Discover our diverse city through the eyes of the 2009 Toronto Book Awards short-listed authors. The awards honour writers of books of literary or artistic merit which are evocative of Toronto.

This is the 35th anniversary of the Toronto Book Awards, and the library is pleased to partner with the City of Toronto to celebrate the nominees.

And the winner is ...

Austin Clarke, for his book More.

Congratulations to Mr. Clarke (Thomas Allen Publishers) for his new novel, More.

One Book for Toronto

Toronto Public Library will celebrate Austin Clarke's novel, More as our ONE BOOK for 2010. Watch for programs and announcements about our ONE BOOK program during April's Keep Toronto Reading celebrations!

2009 Finalists

Barnacle Love	Girls Fall Down	In the Land of the Long Fingernails
By Anthony De Sa	By Maggie Helwig	By Charles Wilkins
More about the book	More about the book	More about the book
More	Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City that Might Have Been
By Austin Clarke	By Mark Osbaldeston
More about the book	More about the book

Watch this playlist of Austin Clarke and the four other nominees discussing their books and the Toronto book awards:

More background on the Toronto Book Awards (City of Toronto website)

Presented in partnership with the City of Toronto

Updated on: October 27, 2009

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