Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

More money for Montreal libraries

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Montreal libraries will get an injection of $37.5-million in new money over the next three years, city and provincial officials announced earlier this week. Mayor Gérald Tremblay and Christine St-Pierre, Quebec’s minister of culture and ... Read More »

November 15, 2007

XYZ publisher gets Quebec community prize

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André Vanasse, the vice-president and editorial director of XYZ éditeur, has won this year’s Quebec Writers’ Federation Community Award. The prize honours a person who has helped to develop Quebec’s English-language literary scene. In 1999, ... Read More »

November 14, 2007

Deals: November 14, 2007

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Knopf Canada publisher Diane Martin has acquired Canadian rights to Newfoundland author Jessica Grant’s Come, Thou Tortoise, a debut, comic novel with two narrators: Audrey, a woman who returns to Newfoundland for her father’s funeral, ... Read More »

November 14, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Flight of the loonie

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The recent surge in value of the Canadian dollar – which yesterday closed at almost 72 cents U.S. – is good news for Canadian consumers of U.S. goods. But while some Canadian book importers are ... Read More »

November 13, 2007