James MacLean

Jun 8, 2023 | thecoast.ca | James MacLean |Morgan Mullin |K.R. Byggdin

Get ready for your to-be-read pile to grow even taller: Last night, June 7, saw the annual Atlantic Book Awards Gala take over Halifax Central Library’s Paul O’Regan Hall, getting lit(erary) as it celebrated some of the top tomes of the last year. Halifax author K. R. Byggdin was the evening’s star, taking home the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for their debut novel, Wonder World (a queer, cross-country coming-of-age story with questions about the meaning of home).