A pair of Canadians are among the 20 women on the 16th annual Orange Prize for Fiction longlist. Emma Donoghue (Room) and Kathleen Winter (Annabel) are both in contention for the book award, which recognizes ... Read More »
CanLit heavy-hitters and a few breakthrough newcomers mix it up as finalists for this year's B.C. Book Prizes. The nominees across seven categories include Douglas Coupland, George Bowering, John Vaillant, and Maggie de Vries, as ... Read More »
March 10, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Canada lands on the International Intellectual Property Alliance's priority watch list as "haven" for international piracy organizations All-nighter term papers just got a lot trickier: design flaw at University of Calgary's new state-of-the-art library leaves ... Read More »
Toronto writer Kim Echlin took home the big prize yesterday at the Barnes & Noble 2010 Discover Awards. The U.S. chain named Echlin winner of the fiction category for her third novel, The Disappeared (first ... Read More »
March 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
New York-based OR Books will publish Tweets from Tahrir, a compilation of Twitter dispatches from Egypt's recent political revolution The nominees for Quebec's best French-language comics include Jeff Lemire's Essex County (trans. Sidonie Van den ... Read More »
March 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Today's links round-up, video edition: TVO launched its digital archive this week. Check out Mike McManus's 1975 interview with Margaret Atwood about her book Lady Oracle. An Atwoodian gem from the video: Remember I'm old. ... Read More »
February 24, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
CBC Books announced the winners of their first-ever book club awards, the Bookies. The contest, which celebrates some of the best Canadian literature of the past year, was decided by a reader-generated nomination and voting ... Read More »
February 24, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
It can be a little tricky staying on top of the latest in new and social media these days. A few hours at PodCamp Toronto this weekend could be time well-spent in figuring out how ... Read More »
February 24, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology
Book news from around the Web: At the Tools of Change conference, Margaret Atwood asks where's the cheddar for authors in the e-book age Azerbaijan gets booted from the Minsk International Book Fair for anti-Armenian ... Read More »
February 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The Man Booker Foundation will honour the late Beryl Bainbridge, a five-time Booker Prize nominee, with a special readers' choice award Japanese entrepreneurs take e-book publishing into their own hands ... and illegally scan their ... Read More »
February 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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