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Alberta Book Publishing Awards finalists named

The awards formerly known as the Alberta Book Awards have been split in half this year, with the Book Publishers Association of Alberta and the Writers Guild of Alberta hosting separate awards ceremonies. The Alberta ... Read More »

April 12, 2007

Transcontinental levels prices for enviro-paper

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One of Canada’s largest printers, Transcontinental, is making going green a little more affordable for publishers. After striking a new deal with its paper supplier, Cascades, Transcontinental will now offer its Enviro 100 Trade paper ... Read More »

April 12, 2007

ReLit Award judges to remain anonymous

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When Newfoundland author Kenneth J. Harvey released his extensive longlists for this year’s edition of the ReLit Awards, which he created to recognize independent works in novel, short fiction, and poetry categories, it came with ... Read More »

April 12, 2007

Canadians make big showing on International Man Booker shortlist

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It was a big day for Canadian literature at Toronto’s Massey College this morning, where the shortlist for the Man Booker International Prize was announced. Of the 15 finalists, which were selected from all corners ... Read More »

April 12, 2007

Man Booker International shortlist announcement

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The eyes of the literary world were on Toronto on Thursday morning as the ... Read More »

April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Hotel Blotto

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Sam Hiyate at The Rights Factory has sold the rights to CBC producer and food critic Kathryn Borel’s Chateau Shitfaced, about the author and her French father touring the wine regions of Alsace, Burgundy, Cotes ... Read More »

April 11, 2007

Boots, chickens, and pirates

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Raincoast Books children’s editor Tonya Martin has purchased rights to three new titles, all unagented. The first is a picture book by author/illustrator Sean Moore. Yellow Blues is about a young girl named Jane who ... Read More »

April 11, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Foreign Front: April 11, 2007

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Bill Hanna of Acacia House Publishing Services has sold U.S. rights to John McFetridge’s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Dirty Sweet to Harcourt. He has also sold Japanese rights to Mike Harrison’s All Shook ... Read More »

April 11, 2007

IBBY Canada nominates Doyle and Pratt for Hans Christian Andersen Awards

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Ottawa author Brian Doyle and Montreal illustrator Pierre Pratt are IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Canada’s nominees for the 2008 Hans Christian Andersen Awards, which honours children’s authors and illustrators from around ... Read More »

April 10, 2007

McClelland & Stewart partners with CBC for poetry promotion

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McClelland & Stewart has teamed up with CBC’s Words at Large literary website to mark poetry month by featuring a different poem each day of April. All of the poems are drawn from M&S’s backlist ... Read More »

April 9, 2007

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Alberta Book Publishing Awards finalists named

Transcontinental levels prices for enviro-paper

ReLit Award judges to remain anonymous

Canadians make big showing on International Man Booker shortlist

Man Booker International shortlist announcement

Hotel Blotto

Boots, chickens, and pirates

Foreign Front: April 11, 2007

IBBY Canada nominates Doyle and Pratt for Hans Christian Andersen Awards

McClelland & Stewart partners with CBC for poetry promotion

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