Awards
The Book of Negroes, published in the US under the title Someone Knows My Name, won the 2008 overall Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the 2008 Evergreen Award from the Ontario Library Association, and CBC Radio's 2009 edition of Canada Reads, and was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and was longlisted for the Giller Prize and the IMPAC Award. Hill was named 2009 Author of the Year by Go On Girl!, the largest African-American women's book club.
He won the 2005 National Magazine Award for best essay for his work entitled "Is Africa's Pain Black America's Burden?", published in The Walrus (February 2005). Hill also wrote the screenplay for Seeking Salvation, a 90-minute documentary film about the Black church in Canada. Seeking Salvation (Travesty Productions, Toronto, 2004) won the American Wilbur Award for best national television documentary in 2005.
In 2010, he was awarded the Bob Edwards Award from the Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary. The award "recognizes a literary figure who has demonstrated outstanding curiosity and respect for freedom of expression".
He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo (2010-11).
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