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Lawrence Hill

LAWRENCE HILL is a professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph. He is the author of ten books, including The Illegal; The Book Of Negroes; Any Known Blood; and Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. He is the winner of various awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, and is a two-time winner of CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. Hill delivered the North America-wide 2013 Massey Lectures, based on his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life. He co-wrote the adaptation for the six-part television miniseries The Book of Negroes, which attracted millions of viewers and won eleven Canadian Screen Awards. The recipient of nine honorary doctorates from Canadian universities, Hill served as chair of the jury of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. He is a volunteer with Book Clubs for Inmates and the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, and is an honorary patron of Crossroads International, for which he has volunteered for more than thirty-five years and with which he has travelled to Niger, Cameroon, Mali, and Swaziland. A 2018 Berton House resident in Dawson City, he is working on a new novel about the African-American soldiers who helped build the Alaska Highway in northern B.C. and Yukon in 1942–43. He is a Member of the Order of Canada, has been inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame, and in 2019 was named a Canada Library and Archives Scholar. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and in Woody Point, Newfoundland.

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Any Known Blood

by Lawrence Hill
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Beatrice and Croc Harry

A Novel
by Lawrence Hill
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tagged : friendship
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Black Berry Sweet Juice

by Lawrence Hill
edition:Hardcover
tagged : cultural heritage, discrimination & race relations
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Black Berry, Sweet Juice

Black Berry, Sweet Juice

by Lawrence Hill
edition:Paperback
tagged : cultural heritage, discrimination & race relations, african american studies
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Blood

Blood

The Stuff of Life
by Lawrence Hill
edition:eBook
tagged : human anatomy & physiology, social history
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Blood: The Stuff of Life

Blood: The Stuff of Life

The Stuff of Life
by Lawrence Hill
edition:eBook
tagged : social history, human anatomy & physiology
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Book Of Negroes Illustrated Edition

by Lawrence Hill
edition:Paperback
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Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

An Anatomy of a Book Burning
by Lawrence Hill
introduction by Ted Bishop
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Highway

by Lawrence Hill
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Illegal

Illegal

by Lawrence Hill
edition:Paperback
tagged : literary, dystopian
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Some Great Thing

Some Great Thing

by Lawrence Hill
edition:Paperback
also available: Paperback eBook
tagged : short stories (single author)
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The Book Of Negroes

The Book Of Negroes

by Lawrence Hill
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tagged : literary, historical
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The Book Of Negroes Movie Tie-In

The Book Of Negroes Movie Tie-In

by Lawrence Hill
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The Illegal

The Illegal

by Lawrence Hill
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The Illegal Signed Edition

by Lawrence Hill
edition:Hardcover
tagged : literary, dystopian
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The Illustrated Book Of Negroes

by Lawrence Hill
edition:Hardcover
tagged : literary
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The Midnight Men

by Lawrence Hill
edition:eBook
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Luminous Ink

Luminous Ink

Writers on Writing in Canada
edited by Tessa McWatt; Dionne Brand; Rabindranath Maharaj
contributions by Nicole Brossard; Madeleine Thien; Lawrence Hill; Nino Ricci; Heather O'Neill; Eden Robinson; Rawi Hage; Lisa Moore; Rita Wong; Hiromi Goto; George Elliott Clarke; Judith Thompson; Michael Helm; David Chariandy; Richard van Camp; Marie-Hélène Poitras; Stephen Henighan; Greg Hollingshead; Michael Ondaatje; Lee Maracle; Camilla Gibb; Sheila Fischman; Pascale Quiviger; MG Vassanji; Margaret Atwood & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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Ten Canadian Writers in Context

Ten Canadian Writers in Context

edited by Marie Carrière; Jason Purcell; Curtis Gillespie
contributions by Joseph Pivato; Ying Chen; Jennifer Bowering Delisle; Caterina Edwards; Marina Endicott; Lawrence Hill; Daniel Laforest; Don Perkins; Julie Rodgers; Eden Robinson; Alice Major; Gregory Scofield; Winfried Siemerling; Pamela Sing; Maïté Snauwaert; Kim Thúy; Kit Dobson; Michael Crummey; Lynn Coady & Angela Van Essen
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tagged : canadian
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Deserter's Tale /hc

The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq
by Joshua Key
as told by Lawrence Hill
edition:Hardcover
tagged : 21st century
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The Deserter's Tale

The Deserter's Tale

The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq
by Joshua Key
as told by Lawrence Hill
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tagged : military, human rights
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