TORONTO - The U.S. poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib has won the $75,000 Weston International Award. Jurors for the $75,000 literary prize praise Abdurraqib’s ability to combine “searing insights into Blackness and social inequality in the United States with themes of love and belonging, life and death.” The award, which is administered by the Writers’ Trust of Canada, recognizes an international author’s body of work in literary non-fiction.