Rawi Hage may have been shut out of the "big three" literary awards – the Scotiabank Giller Prize, The Governor General's Literary Awards, and The Writers' Trust Awards – but he can now console himself ... Read More »
November 20, 2008
Foreign front: Denise Bukowski of The Bukowski Agency has sold Australia and New Zealand rights to Wayson Choy’s memoir Not Yet, which Doubleday Canada plans to publish in March 2009. International buy-ins: Key Porter Books ... Read More »
November 19, 2008
Selina Rajani is moving on from her position as publicity manager at Self-Counsel ... Read More »
November 19, 2008
Doubleday Canada has claimed the top two English-language prizes at the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards, which were announced in Montreal earlier this morning. Nino Ricci’s The Origin of Species and Christie Blatchford’s Fifteen Days ... Read More »
November 18, 2008
The Ontario Library Association has named Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins Canada) – about an 11-year-old child abducted from her village in West Africa – as the winner of the 2008 Evergreen Award.book-of-negroes-wins-evergreen-award/> ... Read More »
November 17, 2008
The revamped Writers’ Trust Awards took place in Toronto last night (for the first time ever, the awards were given out in November instead of in the spring), and the biggest beneficiaries were authors Miriam ... Read More »
November 17, 2008
Reed Exhibitions Canada and the Canadian Booksellers Association agree they need to boost the number of booksellers attending the 2009 edition of BookExpo Canada, but so far there is little in the way of concrete ... Read More »
November 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
After more than a month of searching, Terri Harker – the head of the new Hachette Book Group Canada office – has selected her team. Martha Bucci, the former sales and marketing director of the ... Read More »
November 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Effective Jan. 1, 2009, Napoleon & Company is moving its Canadian distribution from Penguin Canada to GTW, and Canadian sales to Kate Walker & Company. Imprints affected are Napoleon Publishing, RendezVous Press, RendezVous Crime, Darkstar ... Read More »
November 13, 2008
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