Toronto’s Rosemary Sullivan named Canadian winner of Plutarch Award for Biography
Toronto author Rosemary Sullivan has been named the first Canadian winner of the American Plutarch Award for Biography.
The award-winning writer is being honoured for her book “Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva” (HarperCollins Publishers).
Sullivan has already won several awards for the biography, including the $25,000 RBC Taylor Prize, the $40,000 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
The Plutarch Award began in 2013 and is named after the famous biographer of ancient Greece.
The winner is determined by secret ballot from a formal list of nominees selected by a committee of distinguished members of the craft.
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