“Non-fiction is finally triumphing over its traditionally sexier cousin, fiction, evident yesterday when non-fiction books swept the Trillium Book Awards, Ontario’s pre-eminent literary honours. In the English-language category, Thomas King’s series of Massey Lectures, The Truth About Stories, beat fiction favourites such as M. G. Vassanji’s Giller Prize-winner The In-Between World of Vikram Lall and Barbara Gowdy’s The Romantic, which made the long-list for last year’s Man Booker Prize.”