Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

CanLit goes to Mexico

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Émile and Yann Martel, a father-son writer duo who are both fluent in Spanish, are being featured this week at a half dozen events during the Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL,) a major international literary ... Read More »

November 27, 2006

HarperCollins Canada

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Janet Murie, who has been a senior sales rep for Scholastic Canada in B.C. for the past three years, will be joining as sales director for children’s books, effective Jan. 3. She will also work ... Read More »

November 24, 2006

Hage gets satisfaction at last

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Author Rawi Hage finally took home some award hardware this week, after being shut out of both the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Awards earlier this month. And to make matters sweeter, ... Read More »

November 23, 2006

Dolly Parton's charity launch

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A Canadian branch of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library was launched in Toronto this week with an appearance by the singer herself. (Photos by Quill & Quire.) CBC personality Evan Solomon reads from his children's book ... Read More »

November 23, 2006 | Filed under: Events

The rookies

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Doubleday Canada senior editor Tim Rostron has just acquired a new non-fiction work by sportswriter Gare Joyce. In Scout’s Honour: A Rookie’s Year in the NHL’s Secret Fraternity, Joyce will track the top junior hockey ... Read More »

November 22, 2006

Mordecai, Mordecai

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In a strange coincidence, two separate publishing houses have just announced plans to release biographies of the late Mordecai Richler. The first, from Knopf Canada, will be a full-scale biography by Charles Foran, entitled Mordecai: ... Read More »

November 22, 2006