Mother-Daughter memoir wins the Wilfred Eggleston Award

Caterina Edwards' recently published memoir, Finding Rosa: A Mother with Alzheimer's, a Daughter in Search of the Past, has won the 2009 Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction, part of the Alberta Literary Awards that were announced on May 23, 2009. The award carries a cash prize of $1000. Finding Rosa has also been nominated for the 2009 City of Edmonton Book Prize.

Finding Rosa is a moving account of one woman's journey into the realm of her mother's dementia. When her mother, Rosa, begins to show signs of Alzheimer's, Caterina Edwards embarks on a voyage of discovery - all at once geographical, intellectual, and emotional - that turns out to be a journey in search of the past and of home. Through this experience, Edwards braves an area of darkness with and for her mother and finally comes to know who her mother was.

Said the jury about Finding Rosa: "This is a frank and sensitive memoir of a search for personal and national identity, oscillating between discoveries of a family’s past as well as those of a forgotten country. The superb prose moves unerringly between intimate and historical voices."

To download the entire press release, click on the PDF below.

Finding Rosa_Alberta Literary Awards.pdf