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My YA novel wins a 2023 Trillium Book Award!

I’m almost one week late with the flurry of activities, and some of you already know about it, but here it is.

On the June 20th Tuesday evening, in Toronto, I received Ontario’s most prestigious literary award, one of the four Trillium Book Awards, for my YA novel Le secret de Paloma.

Picture by Gilles Gagnon

Michèle, proud, holding her framed prize. (Picture by Gilles Gagnon)

Always fun when I win a literary award with a science fiction novel! 

A note, the book encased seems slightly open, but the pages are actually glued together. There is a glass/plastic panel to protect the award.

Ontario Creates had replaced the Ontario Arts Council, but they still treat the finalists as well as the winners. This was my third nomination for a Trillium Award, after 2009 and 2013. I am proud of winning this time, and never hid the savor of my literary ice cream. The two other finalists had fine YA books, also, (see my French blog for details.)

To see more pics on my French blog, go there: https://savantefolle.com/2023/06/23/prix-trillium-2023/