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U.S. writer Hanif Abdurraqib wins Weston International Award
TORONTO — The U.S. poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib has won the $75,000 Weston International Award.
Jurors for the $75,000 literary prize praise Abdurraqib’s ability to combine “searing insights into Blackness and social inequality in the United States with themes of love and belonging, life and death.”
The award, which is administered by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, recognizes an international author’s body of work in literary non-fiction.
Abdurraqib’s books include “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us,” “A Little Devil in America” and “There’s Always This Year.”
His writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, Pitchfork and the New York Times.
The Writers’ Trust will host an event featuring an onstage conversation with Abdurraqib on Sept. 14.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 17, 2026.
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