Nicole Winstanley (Lorne Bridgman)

Simon & Schuster Canada president and publisher Nicole Winstanley has been named the recipient of the 2024 Ivy Award.

Winstanley will be presented with the award on Sept. 24 at an event during the upcoming Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA).

The award, now in its 13th year, is granted annually by the International Visitors Programme in association with TIFA, to someone who has made a substantial contribution to Canadian publishing.

At Simon & Schuster Canada, which she joined earlier this year, Winstanley oversees the global publisher’s publishing and operations in Canada. Before taking the helm at S&S, Winstanley served as publisher of Penguin Canada and vice president of Penguin Random House Canada, where she published a wide list of Canadian books and authors, including Sarah Polley, Mona Awad, katherena vermette, Nita Prose, Ashley Audrain, and Jessica J. Lee.

“I’m stunned to have been chosen as the recipient of this award by my publishing peers, and also to have my name mentioned in the company of the previous winners whom I so greatly admire,” Winstanley said in a press release.

Winstanley was selected as the recipient of this year’s award by a jury comprised of Deborah Dundas, opinions editor at the Toronto Star; Carolyn Forde co-chair of the IV Committee and partner and senior literary agent at Transatlantic Agency; Alana Wilcox, editorial director at Coach House Books and last year’s Ivy Award winner; Kyle Wyatt, editor of the Literary Review of Canada; and TIFA director Roland Gulliver.

Previous winners of the Ivy Award include Errol Sharpe, Nurjehan Aziz, and Iris Tupholme.