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Bapsi Sidwa’s novel Water wins Italian prize

Bapsi Sidwa's novel Water (Key Porter Books), which was based on Deepa Mehta's film, has won Italy's Premio Mondello 2007 for Foreign Authors. Previous winners of the award include Joseph Brodsky, Doris Lessing, V.S. Naipaul,water-wins-italian-prize/> ... Read More »

July 12, 2007

Winners of Manitoba writing contest announced

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To mark its 25th anniversary, the Manitoba Writers Guild sponsored a creative writing contest on the theme of friendship. The contest proved to be the largest in the guild's history, with over $7,500 in prizes ... Read More »

July 12, 2007

Edmonton reads Hage’s De Niro’s Game

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Edmonton Reads: One City, One Book, the Edmonton Public Library’s inaugural community book project, has looked past the city limits by selecting De Niro’s Game, the début novel by Montreal writer Rawi Hage. Published inde-niros-game/> ... Read More »

July 12, 2007

Rudy Wiebe wins $25,000 Grant MacEwan award

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Edmonton author Rudy Wiebe has won a $25,000 award for his memoir, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (Knopf Canada). The Author's Award is one part of the Grant MacEwan Literary ... Read More »

July 11, 2007

Deals: July 11, 2007

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Penguin Canada editorial director Andrea Magyar has purchased world rights to a new environmental tome by Andrew Weaver, a University of Victoria professor and lead author in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Canada ... Read More »

July 11, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Edmonton gets new poet laureate

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Two-time Governor General’s Award-winning poet E.D. (Ted) Blodgett is Edmonton’s new poet laureate.The program, introduced in 2005, is one of five in Canada. The City of Edmonton pays the poet a stipend of $5,000 per ... Read More »

July 11, 2007

HarperCollins Canada packages YA novels for adults

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HarperCollins Canada has decided to release new adult editions of two popular YA titles, Susan Juby’s Alice, I Think and Kenneth Oppel’s Airborn. “We just felt like there was a market,” said Lynne Missen, HarperCollins ... Read More »

July 11, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Greg Hollingshead wins Alberta Lieutenant Governor award

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Edmonton author Greg Hollingshead has won a $30,000 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Award. Hollingshead was honoured for his contribution to Canadian literature through his body of work and his impact as a teacher and ... Read More »

July 10, 2007

Publishers try to narrow gap between U.S. and Canadian prices

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Just as the Canadian dollar surpassed a 30-year high at 95 cents against the U.S. dollar, Canadian publishers who import American books are responding in a variety of ways to pressure from booksellers and consumers ... Read More »

July 9, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

M&S gets new publicity manager from the music industry

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Random House of Canada has hired Josh Glover from Sony BMG Music to be the new publicity manager for McClelland & Stewart titles. Glover worked for five years at Sony as manager of national media ... Read More »

July 9, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

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Bapsi Sidwa’s novel Water wins Italian prize

Winners of Manitoba writing contest announced

Edmonton reads Hage’s De Niro’s Game

Rudy Wiebe wins $25,000 Grant MacEwan award

Deals: July 11, 2007

Edmonton gets new poet laureate

HarperCollins Canada packages YA novels for adults

Greg Hollingshead wins Alberta Lieutenant Governor award

Publishers try to narrow gap between U.S. and Canadian prices

M&S gets new publicity manager from the music industry

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