Stan Persky wins B.C. literary award
Stan Persky, a Vancouver writer, media commentator and public intellectual, has been awarded the B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.
The $5,000 award is given annually to a B.C. writer who has contributed to the growth of literary excellence in the province,
“His grace as an essayist, his curiosity and independence of thought as a critic and newspaper columnist, and his exuberance as a civil rights activist and a leading voice of the gay community, have enriched us all,” jury member and last year’s winner Terry Glavin said in a citation.
Persky was honoured for “trail-blazing efforts in creating literary journals and a forum for public engagement — not least New Star Books and the Georgia Straight,” the citation said.
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