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    Lawrence Hill

    Lawrence Hill is the author of several novels including Someone Knows My Name, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was nominated in the United States for the Huston Wright Legacy Award. In 2015 Hill was appointed to the Order of Canada “for his contributions as an author and activist who tells the stories of Canada’s black community and of women and girls in Africa.” A graduate of the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he lives in Ontario, Canada.

    Lawrence Hill

    Lawrence Hill is the author of several novels including Someone Knows My Name, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was nominated in the United States for the Huston Wright Legacy Award. In 2015 Hill was appointed to the Order of Canada “for his contributions as an author and activist who tells the stories of Canada’s black community and of women and girls in Africa.” A graduate of the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he lives in Ontario, Canada.

    Awards

    Winner — Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 2008

    Nominated — NAACP Image Award, 2017

    Books by Lawrence Hill

    • Someone Knows My Name: A Novel

      Lawrence Hill

      Paperback, 2008

      Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. "Wonderfully written...populated by vivid characters and rendered in fascinating detail." —Nancy Kline, New York Times Book Review

    • Someone Knows My Name: A Novel

      Lawrence Hill

      Hardback, 2007

      "You feel you are turning the pages of history, the pages of truth."—Austin Clarke, author of The Polished Hoe

    • The Illegal: A Novel

      Lawrence Hill

      Paperback, 2017

      “A gripping political thriller readers may find hard to put down.”—Dallas Morning News

    • Someone Knows My Name: A Novel

      Lawrence Hill

      E Book, 2008

      Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. "Wonderfully written...populated by vivid characters and rendered in fascinating detail." —Nancy Kline, New York Times Book Review

    • The Illegal: A Novel

      Lawrence Hill

      E Book, 2016

      “A gripping political thriller readers may find hard to put down.”—Dallas Morning News

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