By Catherine Hansen

UNBC Presenting Honourary Degrees

May 24, 2018 | 1:12 PM

UNBC convocation is set for tomorrow,  and grads will hear from two honorary Doctor of Laws recipients. 

Lawrence Hill is a renowned canadian author,  known for his famous works such as Book of Negros, Any Known Blood and The Illegal.

Hill has won numerous various awards including The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and is a two-time winner of CBC Radio’s Canada Reads and is a member of the order of Canada.

Hill will receive his honorary degree at the College of Arts, Social and Health Sciences ceremony on May 25 at 9:30 a.m.

Prominent lawyer and former BC supreme court Justice Thomas Berger will also speak and receive an honorary degree.  Berger will receive his honorary degree at the College of Science and Management ceremony on May 25 at 2:30 p.m.

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