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Stephen Kimber Wins Prestigious Award for Cuban 5
Book
Stephen Kimber’s book, What
Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban
Five, has won the 2014 Evelyn Richardson Award for
Nonfiction at Canada’s East Coast Literary Awards.
 The
Five were members of a Cuban intelligence network
sent to Florida in the 1990s to infiltrate Miami
exile groups plotting terrorist attacks against
Cuba. Though they helped prevent a number of
terrorist attacks, the Five were arrested by the FBI
in 1998, tried, convicted and sentenced to lengthy
prison terms. Three of the five are still in jail.
Although their case is still
little known in the United States, international
human rights organizations — including Amnesty
International and the United Nations Working Group
on Arbitrary Detention — have criticized their
treatment in the U.S. justice system, and a dozen
Nobel laureates have written in their support.
In the citation, the judges
described What Lies Across the Water as "a
remarkable piece of investigative journalism. Kimber
has unearthed a riveting story at the heart of why
there is little hope of political reconciliation
between Cuba and the United States — until there is
justice for the Cuban Five." The book was previously
long-listed for the Libris Award as Nonfiction Book
of the Year in Canada.
Accepting the award at a
ceremony in Halifax, Kimber — a professor of
journalism at the University of King’s College and
the award-winning author of nine other books —
explained he had stumbled upon the story
accidentally as a journalist, but is now also an
advocate for their freedom.
He dedicated the award to
the three members of the Five still imprisoned in
the United States. (Taken from the Cuba 5 site)
http://www.thecuban5.org/2014/09/20/stephen-kimber-wins-prestigious-award-for-cuban-5-book/
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