This year’s Politics & the Pen Gala at Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier welcomed 500 guests and raised more than $300,000 to support the programmes of the Writers’ Trust of Canada. It was also a swelligant evening where a good time was had by one and all.
Calgary author Marcello Di Cintio may have had a better time than most though. He was named winner of the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book Walls: Travels Along the Barricades.
Here’s some of the press:
CPAC, On the Bright Side. Video footage
Ottawa Citizen. A National Party Writ Large
iPolitics.ca. Where Politics meets the Pen
CTV Morning Live interview with Marcello Di Cintio
Globe & Mail Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Nominees interview series. Taras Grescoe
Calgary Herald, feature interview with Marcello Di Cintio
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