CTV highlighted Deborah Campbell, a UBC creative writing instructor, who won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for “A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War.”
Campbell has spent more than a decade reporting from countries including Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and Russia. Her book was chosen from among five finalists, and the jury read 95 books submitted by 50 publishers.
