The Boy in the Moon, Ian Brown's personal tale about life with his disabled son, has won the Trillium Book Award, Ontario's top prize for literary excellence.

The Boy in the Moon, by Toronto writer Ian Brown, now has a trio of Canadian literary awards. (Random House Canada)

The Boy in the Moon, by Toronto writer Ian Brown, now has a trio of Canadian literary awards. (Random House Canada)

Ian Brown's personal tale about life with his disabled son, The Boy in the Moon, has won the Trillium Book Award, Ontario's top prize for literary excellence.

The moving story of Brown's 13-year-old son, Walker, born with the genetic condition cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome, has already taken the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction and the $40,000 B.C. Book Prize.

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In an interview with CBC's The National earlier this year, Brown described his son as having a life of "huge challenges and small triumphs."

"If Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?" Brown said, reading from the book. "All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head, in his jumped-up heart. But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own."

Toronto-based writer and broadcaster Brown was named winner of the $20,000 Trillium Award in Toronto on Thursday.

The winner for the best book in French was Ryad Assani-Razaki for Deux Cercles, a debut short story collection that deals with issues of immigration and alienation. Assani-Razaki was born in Benin in West Africa and is now based in Toronto.

Karen Solie, the Toronto-based poet who won the Griffin Poetry Prize earlier this month for Pigeon, was named winner of the Trillium Book Award for poetry for the same collection.

A native of Saskatchewan, Solie was previously nominated for a Trillium Award for her second book, Modern and Normal.

The winner for poetry in French was Michèle Matteau for her first poetry collection Passerelles.

Matteau is a novelist, poet and playwright. The first novel in her À ta santé, la vie! trilogy, titled Cognac et Porto, won the 2001 Trillium Book Award.