Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario hosted the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction Tuesday night, as Graeme Smith accepted the award for The Dogs Are Eating Them Now (Knopf Canada), a memoir that documents his time serving as a war correspondent in Afghanistan.

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Penguin Random House president and CEO Brad Martin with Harlequin Enterprises publisher and CEO Donna Hayes

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Emcee Shelagh Rogers and juror Evan Solomon

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Graeme Smith accepts the prize for <i>The Dogs Are Eating Them Now</i>

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Thomas King with partner Helen Hoy (left), emcee Shelagh Rogers, and Writers' Trust Board of Directors vice-chair (and St. Joseph Media president) Douglas Knight

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Nominees and winner Graeme Smith pose with the Honorable Hilary Weston and Writers' Trust of Canada executive director Mary Osborne (from left: J.B. MacKinnon, Priscila Uppal, Andrew Steinmetz, Hilary Weston, Graeme Smith, Mary Osborne, Thomas King)

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Jurors Evan Solomon, Samantha Nutt, and Hal Niedzviecki

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Author Katherine Ashenburg, emcee Shelagh Rogers, and former Writers' Trust executive director Don Oravec

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Nominees Priscila Uppal and J.B. MacKinnon

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<i>Zoomer Magazine</i> editor-in-chief Suzanne Boyd with juror Hal Niedzviecki

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Type Books co-owners Joanne Saul and Samara Walbohm

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