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HarperCollins announces sales, publicity promotions

HarperCollins Canada has announced several promotions, including a shuffle of their sales and marketing team. Michael Guy-Haddock, who has been promoted to sales director for national accounts, will oversee sales of Canadian adult trade and ... Read More »

April 17, 2008

Key Porter signs up new Skvorecky novel

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It has been more than two decades since the Czech-Canadian author Josef Skvorecky published his Governor General’s Award-winning novel The Engineer of Human Souls. The 84-year-old author has kept busy in the intervening years, writing ... Read More »

April 17, 2008

Smith wins Donner Prize

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David E. Smith has won the 10th annual Donner Prize for his book The People’s House of Commons: Theories of Democracy in Contention (University of Toronto Press). Smith, professor emeritus of political studies at the ... Read More »

April 17, 2008

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards shortlist

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Eleven authors and illustrators from across Canada have been nominated for the 2008 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards. The two awards, one for a children’s picture book and one for a young adult ... Read More »

April 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Deals: April 17, 2008

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McClelland & Stewart executive editor Lara Hinchberger has acquired Canadian rights to Thomas Trofimuk’s Columbus at 4 a.m. The novel is set in present-day Canada and Seville, Spain, where a man arrives at a psychiatric ... Read More »

April 16, 2008

Vancouver author wins ASPCA Award

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The Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer (Tradewind Books), by Vancouver author Sue Ann Alderson, has been selected as one of the winners of the 2007 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Awards in the Young Adult category. ... Read More »

April 16, 2008

Atlantic Book Awards shortlist announced

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The Atlantic Book Festival has announced the nominees for the 2008 Atlantic Book Awards, which will be handed out May 12 at Alderney Theatre in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. This year’s Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction ... Read More »

April 16, 2008

O’Neill, Huston advance to Orange Prize shortlist

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Two Canadian authors made the orange Broadband Prize for Fiction's longlist last month – and now both of them have advanced to the shortlist. Heather O'Neill's Lullabies for Little Criminals and Nancy Huston's Fault Lines ... Read More »

April 15, 2008

Publisher and authors join Order of Canada

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Harbour Publishing president Howard White was named a member of the Order of Canada in an Ottawa ceremony last week. White was the only publisher added to the Order – bestowed by the Governor General, ... Read More »

April 15, 2008

Raincoast partners with Eco-Libris for joint environmental campaign

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Raincoast Books is partnering with American company Eco-Libris for a joint environmentally-friendly initiative dubbed “Buy a Book, Plant a Tree.” Raincoast has signed up 80 Canadian retailers who will be selling a wide range of ... Read More »

April 14, 2008

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HarperCollins announces sales, publicity promotions

Key Porter signs up new Skvorecky novel

Smith wins Donner Prize

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards shortlist

Deals: April 17, 2008

Vancouver author wins ASPCA Award

Atlantic Book Awards shortlist announced

O’Neill, Huston advance to Orange Prize shortlist

Publisher and authors join Order of Canada

Raincoast partners with Eco-Libris for joint environmental campaign

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