Reprinted from Prensa Latina
[with some editing by freethefive.org]
Havana, Jun 24 (Prensa Latina) The book What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of The Cuban Five, written by Canadian writer Stephen Kimber, is among the finalists to a literary award in Canada.
The book is nominated to the Evelyn Richardson Award as the Best Non Fiction Book in the Canadian Atlantic Coast in 2013. The results will be known in September.
The news was confirmed to Prensa Latina by Kimber, who recently took part in a day in Washington to ask for the solution of the case of the Cuban Five, in this case, three of them who are still in prison: Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero.
"Though my work did not win the award, I am going to have the chance to talk about the case of the Cuban Five everywhere I go, from July to September. It will be another chance to talk to the people who do not know the story," said Kimber, interim head of the Journalism Staff in the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, also awarded in 2003 with another book, called "Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War".
The work is the result of a thorough search, which led Kimber to study more than 20,000 pages of court records and thousands of legal documents of what was the longest event in American history.
The award, in honor of writer Evelyn Richardson, was presented for the first time in 1978, and is delivered to the best non fiction titles in Nova Scotia.
