Rosemary Sullivan wins BC National Book Award for Stalin's Daughter

Rosemary Sulllivan's Hilary Weston Prize-winning book Stalin's Daughter picked up yet another literary honour on Thursday night. Sullivan was awarded the BC National Book Award for Canadian Nonfiction for her biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva, the polarizing daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

Stalin's Daughter beat out Stephen Harper by John Ibbitson, Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of our Hidden Genes by Emily Urquhart and The Right to be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier for the $40,000 prize.

Sullivan's biography is currently on the shortlists for the RBC Taylor Prize and PEN Literary Award. An accomplished writer, Sullivan has written acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Smart, Margaret Atwood and Gwendolyn MacEwen.