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Canwest News Service
Vancouver author Annabel Lyon has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for her novel, The Golden Mean.
Lyon, a University of B.C. writing instructor, took home $25,000 as the top prize for the novel in which she depicts the philosopher Aristotle's life during his years tutoring Alexander the Great.
Saltspring Island author Brian Brett won the $25,000 Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize for Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, a memoir of the author's island farm, and a plea for connecting to the hands-on lessons of rural living.
The awards recognize Canadian writers of exceptional talent for the year's best novel or short-story collection.
Victoria short-story writer Yasuko Thanh won the $10,000 Writers' Trust of Canada/McLelland & Stewart Journey Prize for the piece "Floating Like the Dead," published in Vancouver Review magazine.
Winnipeg novelist David Bergen and Ontario children's writer Marthe Jocelyn rounded out the winners' list.
The Golden Mean, Lyon's debut novel, was also nominated for the Governor-General's Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize this year.
It beat out work by literary heavyweights Alice Munro and Nicole Brossard for the Writers' Trust prize.
Brett topped the non-fiction winners' list over respected writers Wade Davis, Trevor Herriot and Erika Ritter.
The ceremony took place Tuesday night at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto.
