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Trillium awards shortlists announced

The Trillium Book Award, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, has announced this year's finalists for awards sponsored by the Ontario government. Award recipients for both English and French works receive $20,000. Their respective publishers ... Read More »

May 17, 2007

Swindled

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Raincoast Books editor Naomi Wittes Reichstein has acquired a new non-fiction tome by journalist Joshua Knelman about the high-stakes world of art theft. Tentatively titled Hot Art, the book will build upon an article Knelman ... Read More »

May 16, 2007

International Buy-Ins: May 16, 2007

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Raincoast Books editor Naomi Wittes Reichstein has purchased rights to a non-fiction title from France by Pierre Bayard. Originally published by Editions de Minuit, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read is a look ... Read More »

May 16, 2007

Foreign Front: May 16, 2007

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On behalf of Drawn & Quarterly, Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency has sold Dutch rights to Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings to Oog & Blik; Czech rights to Tomine’s Summer Blonde to BB/Art Publishers; and ... Read More »

May 16, 2007

Canadian Library Association award winners announced

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The Canadian Library Association has announced the winners of several 2007 awards:Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award• Scaredy Squirrel, written and illustrated by Mélanie Watt (Kids Can Press)Honour Books:• Fox Walked Alone, written and illustrated by ... Read More »

May 14, 2007

Homer-Dixon wins National Business Book Award

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Thomas Homer-Dixon has won this year’s National Business Book Award for The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization, published by Knopf Canada. The $20,000 award, co-sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and BMO ... Read More »

May 14, 2007

Fugitive Pieces will open the Toronto International Film Festival

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A film based on Fugitive Pieces, the best-selling 1996 debut novel by Anne Michaels, has won the opening-night gala screening spot at September’s Toronto International Film Festival. McClelland & Stewart is planning to release afugitive-pieces-will-open-the-toronto-international-film-festival/> ... Read More »

May 14, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Harbour delays publication of global circumnavigation book

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Forced to navigate trackless wilderness and even endure the privations of a Panamanian prison, author and explorer Tim Harvey experienced many delays in his journey around the globe. So perhaps it’s not surprising that his ... Read More »

May 14, 2007

BookNet Canada bestsellers: politics and social sciences

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This week’s list covers the top frontlist (that is, published since last September) political and social science titles for the two weeks ending May 6, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service.1. God Is ... Read More »

May 14, 2007

Edmonton: City of Champions … and creative non-fiction

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Litfest, Edmonton’s annual celebration of creative non-fiction, has created a new offshoot event: a public literary salon devoted to the genre (which blends journalism with the techniques of fiction writing).The inaugural four-day LitFest drew 1,500 ... Read More »

May 14, 2007

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Quill and Quire

Trillium awards shortlists announced

Swindled

International Buy-Ins: May 16, 2007

Foreign Front: May 16, 2007

Canadian Library Association award winners announced

Homer-Dixon wins National Business Book Award

Fugitive Pieces will open the Toronto International Film Festival

Harbour delays publication of global circumnavigation book

BookNet Canada bestsellers: politics and social sciences

Edmonton: City of Champions … and creative non-fiction

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