The Edmonton Public Library has named author and Rock & Roll Literacy Show host Signmund Brouwer winner of this year’s Alberta Reader’s Choice Award for Thief of Glory (WaterBrook Press), about a young boy trying to take care of his family in the aftermath of the 1942 Japanese Imperialist invasion of the Southeast Pacific.
The prize, the winner of which is determined by a public vote, awards $10,000 to an Alberta-based author of a work of excellent fiction or narrative non-fiction.