Another major award for Letters From the Lost

September 08, 2011

Helen Waldstein Wilkes' memoir Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery has been awarded the Edna Staebler award for Creative Non-Fiction. This $10,000 national award is given annually to a Canadian writer of a first or second published book with a Canadian locale and/or significance and it is the second important literary award given to Letters from the Lost.

Earlier this year, Letters from the Lost was given the Alberta Readers' Choice Award and with the addition of today's award, Wilkes' has won $20,000 in prizes for the story surrounding her family's letters written during World War II.

Her moving account of the letters' content and her own compelling narrative of suffering and survivor guilt has captured the interest of readers across Canada and is now being recognized for its imaginative and effective interweaving of original research and memoir.

Helen Waldstein Wilkes will be presented with the award on October 4th at a celebration in Toronto.

Letters from the Lost is published by Athabasca University Press. To order a copy, or to download the free ebook, please visit www.aupress.ca.

 

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Updated August 21, 2012