by Becky Robertson

Joseph Kertes to receive 2017 Harbourfront Festival Prize

Hungarian-born Toronto author Joseph Kertes, former dean of creative and performing arts at Humber College, has been named the recipient of this year's Harbourfront Festival Prize, a $10,000 award administered by the International Festival of ... Read More »

September 22, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

Daily Deals: New works of creative non-fiction by Jacob Wren and Chelene Knight to BookThug

By Becky Robertson

BookThug fiction editor Malcolm Sutton has acquired world rights to a memoir by Jacob Wren. Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART details Wren's work with the titular Montreal art collective and will publish in spring 2018. The ... Read More »

September 21, 2017

New Michael Ondaatje novel on the way

By Becky Robertson

Penguin Random House Canada has announced the forthcoming publication of the long-awaited next novel from The English Patient author Michael Ondaatje. Warlight, set to publish under the McClelland & Stewart imprint in May 2018, follows a man named Nathaniel as ... Read More »

September 21, 2017

Cory Doctorow, Sylvain Neuvel tapped for Black Mirror books

By Becky Robertson

Canadian-British author/blogger Cory Doctorow and Montreal writer Sylvain Neuvel – whose road to bestselling science-fiction authordom began in 2016 with a story he wrote to accompany a toy robot he crafted for his son – are ... Read More »

September 21, 2017 | Filed under: Industry news, People

Margaret Atwood’s year just keeps getting better, will receive PEN lifetime achievement award

By Becky Robertson

In what has been a banner year for Margaret Atwood – between numerous accolades, the debut of the well-received and Emmy Award–winning TV adaptation of her novel The Handmaid's Tale, and the announcement of a miniseries ... Read More »

September 21, 2017 | Filed under: Awards

Toronto Book Garden, honouring Toronto Book Award winners, opens this weekend

By Becky Robertson

Toronto's Harbourfront neighbourhood will be home to a new literary-themed garden commemorating past Toronto Book Award winners. Each recipient of the city's top literary accolade will be honoured with a paving stone engraved with their name ... Read More »

September 21, 2017 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Book news

Book Links: Anne of Green Gables gets Heritage Minute; Clinton memoir breaks records

By Becky Robertson

Anne of Green Gables is getting its own Heritage Minute. (CBC Books) Hillary Clinton's memoir sells a record-breaking 300,000+ copies in first week. (HuffPost) Happy 70th birthday, Stephen King! Renowned authors talk about his influence ... Read More »

September 21, 2017 | Filed under: Book links

Daily Deals: Gallery 13 to publish new graphica by Scott Chantler

By Becky Robertson

Ed Schlesinger, senior editor of Simon & Schuster Canada imprint Gallery 13, has acquired North American English-language rights to the 13th book by award-winning graphic novelist Scott Chantler. Bix is an experimental and largely wordless black-and-white graphic biography of '20s jazz cornet player Leon ... Read More »

September 20, 2017

Distribution Change: The Imagination Agency

By Becky Robertson

Effective immediately, Joe Books will serve as distributor for a number of titles from Chicago-based children’s multimedia agency the Imagination Agency. The Toronto graphic novel, comic, and children's book publisher will handle distribution of titles Hey A.J., It’s Saturday ... Read More »

September 20, 2017

Book Links: Margaret Atwood’s purse an unexpected star at the Emmys; you can buy the Brontës’ birth home

By Becky Robertson

Brontë sisters' birth home is now a café, and it's for sale. (Curbed) The world loves Margaret Atwood for bringing her purse on stage at this year's Emmys. (InStyle) Turkish author Ahmet Altan writes essay ... Read More »

September 20, 2017 | Filed under: Book links

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Joseph Kertes to receive 2017 Harbourfront Festival Prize

Daily Deals: New works of creative non-fiction by Jacob Wren and Chelene Knight to BookThug

New Michael Ondaatje novel on the way

Cory Doctorow, Sylvain Neuvel tapped for Black Mirror books

Margaret Atwood’s year just keeps getting better, will receive PEN lifetime achievement award

Toronto Book Garden, honouring Toronto Book Award winners, opens this weekend

Book Links: Anne of Green Gables gets Heritage Minute; Clinton memoir breaks records

Daily Deals: Gallery 13 to publish new graphica by Scott Chantler

Distribution Change: The Imagination Agency

Book Links: Margaret Atwood’s purse an unexpected star at the Emmys; you can buy the Brontës’ birth home

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