Effective immediately, Prufrock Press will be represented in ... Read More »
June 17, 2005
Adding to his considerable prize haul, David Bezmozgis won the fiction prize for Natasha and Other Stories (HarperCollins Canada) at the 2005 Canadian Jewish Book Awards, which were handed out May 30, 2005, at the ... Read More »
June 17, 2005
It’s been six months now since the Literary Press Group launched their year-long “Take a Joy Read, Canada!” promotion, and while most participating publishers say they’re encouraged by the results so far, booksellers are finding ... Read More »
June 16, 2005
Norman Levine, highly respected Canadian fiction author, died Tuesday in Durham, England, of a suspected heart attack. He was 81.Levine’s work was often controversial within Canada, and for much of his life, he was unable ... Read More »
June 16, 2005
Forgive Alice Major if her surroundings were decidedly unpoetic when she received the news from Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel that she was to be the city’s – and indeed, Alberta’s – first poet laureate. Major, ... Read More »
June 16, 2005
Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has just purchased Canadian rights to a new work of non-fiction by The Globe and Mail’s former Moscow bureau chief, Mark MacKinnon. Revolution Inc: How America is Buying Democracy ... Read More »
June 15, 2005
Don Gillmor, co-author of the spin-off book to the CBC’s Canada: A People’s History, has sold an untitled novel-in-progress to Penguin Canada senior editor Barbara Berson. The book is inspired by the life of 18th-century ... Read More »
June 15, 2005
Random House Canada has purchased rights to a debut literary novel by 28-year-old poet Jen Sookfong Lee, of Vancouver. The tentative title is A Fixture in this Landscape, and the book is about three generations ... Read More »
June 15, 2005
Agent Dean Cooke has sold world rights to a debut story collection by Neil Smith to Knopf Canada editor Michael Schellenberg. The stories in Bang Crunch have appeared in several literary anthologies, and four of ... Read More »
June 15, 2005
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