Toronto Book Award has spoken
Desmond Coles win the Toronto Book Award for walking the walk and writing about it. By Stephen Weir: Often called the human launch pin to Toronto’s Black Lives Matter movement, writer and broadcaster Desmond Cole has just been awarded the 2020 Toronto Book Award for his memoir “The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power”. The annual civic book award ceremony is usually held at the Toronto Reference Library, but this year was held virtually on Monday night. The prize was presented live on line by Paul Ainslie city councillor for Scarborough-Guildwood and a member of the Toronto Public Library Board. Cole takes home $10,000 and four finalists receive $1,000 each. Also in the running for the Prize was Jamaica Canadian writer Zalika Reid-Benta (Frying Plantain), Katie Daubs (The Missing Millionaire), Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber (Dancing After TEN) and Jean Marc Ah-Sen (In the Beggarly Style of Imitation) Cole’s book, according to his publisher, “ chronicles just on