Nancy Huggett thought she’d lost the chance to become a writer after her daughter, who has Down syndrome, suffered a devastating stroke.
But the 66-year-old Ottawa poet has now become the oldest recipient of the RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award, an annual honour aiming to encourage new writing in short stories, creative nonfiction, journalism and poetry.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-poet-wins-acclaim-for-verses-on-caring-for-daughter-with-down-syndrome-1.7263218
