LitAwardsWinners02-03/05/01-Literary award winners Helen Humphreys, Trevor Herriot, and Erna Paris w [Getty Images]

LitAwardsWinners02-03/05/01-Literary award winners Helen Humphreys, Trevor Herriot, and Erna Paris were each awarded $10,000 each during a Canadian Club luncheon, Royal York Hotel, March 5, 2001. Helen won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; Trevor Herriot won the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize; and Erna won the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize. (BERNARD WEIL/TORONTO STAR) DIGITAL IMAGE (Photo by Bernard Weil/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

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