Two FASS Professors Honoured with Ottawa Book Award
Tim Cook, a historian at the Canadian War Museum and an adjunct research professor of History won an Ottawa Book Award for his book Fight to the Finish: Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945. The book is the second volume of a two-part series and tells the stories of Canadians both overseas and at home. Cook is a past winner of the Ottawa Book Award for his non-fiction book At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, which won in 2008.

In the French non-fiction division, Patricia Smart, Chancellor’s Professor Emerita of the French Department, won the Prix du live d’Ottawa for De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan. The book details a collection of writings by women providing their perspectives and experiences throughout Quebec’s history.

Read more information about the winners.