Karyn Freedman wins BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

Our Associate Professor Karyn Freedman has just won the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for her memoir One hour in Paris:  a true story of rape and recovery (University of Chicago Press, US publisher; Freehand Books, Canada publisher).

From the announcement:

The jury cited One Hour in Paris as a "book about rape, but, more than that, it's a book about our collective failure to address the ways in which sexual violence shames and silences its victims and taints our society as a whole."