Ian Brown — writer, journalist, and past Descant contributor — has been awarded the 23rd Annual Trillium Book Award for his stunning memoir, The Boy in the Moon.

The Boy in the Moon explores the challenges of parenting a child with a severe disability. With a bare and loving sense of honesty, the book “slices through ignorance and trite consolation, leaving the eviscerated skins of relationships, social policy and medical expertise flapping in the wind” (Paula Todd, from The Globe and Mail Books).

Ian joins such writers as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and Alice Munro as a winner of this prestigious literary prize. And this is not the first award for The Boy in the Moon; the book was also recently honoured with the Charles Taylor Prize in literary non-fiction. Descant is thrilled to see Ian’s success with this incredibly deserving work and wish him much more to come!

Congratulations, Ian!