Foran wins Writers’ Trust Fellowship

Charles Foran, Toronto-based author of 11 books, has won the $50,000 Writers’ Trust Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded to a promising writer to ease the burden of financial concerns.Foran was named the 2018 recipient Tuesday evening at a black-tie gala at The Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, an event expected to raise more than $250,000 in support of Writers’ Trust programming. It’s the latest literary plaudit for Foran, whose accolades include the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Charles Taylor Prize and a Governor General’s Literary Award. The Order of Canada member swept the book awards circuit in 2011 for his biography “Mordecai: The Life & Times’’ on the Montreal literary provocateurMordecai Richler.