Fatimah Ashgar. Photo by Tina G. Photography.
Poet and screenwriter Fatimah Asghar is the first winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Asghar won the prize for their debut novel WHEN WE WERE SISTERS (One World). In a ceremony at Parnassus Books in Nashville, Asghar was awarded the top prize: $150,000 and a writing residency at Fogo Island Inn in Newfoundland and Labrador.