Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue has been nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplay adaptation of her 2010 novel, Room. The film's star, Brie Larson, won a Golden Globe earlier this week for her performance. ... Read More »
The Nipissing Naturalists Club of North Bay will honour author, nurse, and naturalist Louise de Kiriline Lawrence with an Ontario Heritage Trust plaque this spring. De Kiriline Lawrence immigrated to Canada from Sweden in the ... Read More »
January 13, 2016
Russian rights to Toronto neuroscientist Marc Lewis's controversial 2015 title, The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease, have been sold to Piter Publishing. The deal was arranged by Synopsis Literary Agency in association ... Read More »
January 13, 2016
More than 40,000 Terry Pratchett fans petition for new periodic table element to be named after The Colour of Magic. (Electric Lit) Poet Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade becomes first debut collection to win T.S. Eliot ... Read More »
January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Book links
The shortlist for the annual RBC Taylor Prize, recognizing the best in Canadian literary non-fiction, was announced this morning at a press conference in Toronto. The finalists include several high-profile authors, including journalist Ian Brown, ... Read More »
January 13, 2016 | Filed under: Awards
An updated take on Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic Anne of Green Gables is on its way, this time in the form of a TV series from CBC. The eight-part series follows news that a movie ... Read More »
January 12, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture
The Sunburst Awards, the juried annual prizes recognizing the best Canadian literature of the fantastic, will see the addition of a short-story category this year. Fiction up to 7,500 words published in an anthology, magazine, ... Read More »
January 12, 2016 | Filed under: Awards
Knopf Random Canada Group publisher Anne Collins has acquired Canadian English-language rights to a non-fiction essay collection by the late Pulitzer Prize– and Governor General's Literary Award–winning author Carol Shields. Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields ... Read More »
January 12, 2016
Penguin Random House Canada has announced the departure of two key members of its executive team: James Young, vice-president, director of sales; and Jordan Fenn, publisher of the Fenn/McClelland & Stewart imprint and vice-president, director ... Read More »
January 12, 2016
Jewel Kats, Toronto children's author, disabilities advocate, and inspiration for Archie comics character Harper Lodge, has died. (CBC) Thousands protest in Hong Kong in response to missing publishers. (The Digital Reader) Penguin Random House still ... Read More »
January 12, 2016 | Filed under: Book links
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