abstract:The Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium is an annual book prize sponsored by the government of Ontario and is currently administered by one of its agencies, the Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC). The Trillium Book Award was created in l987 by Wilfried (Wil) Vanderelst, then Director of the Libraries and Community Information Branch, with the support of David Silcox, Deputy Minister, and Lily Oddie Munro, Minister of Culture and Communications.