Canadian publishers couldn’t say whether overall attendance at this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair – held April 13 to 16 in the Italian city – was up or down, but that’s probably a good thing. ... Read More »
April 21, 2005
Shortlists for this year's Lowther and Lampert awards, administered by The League of Canadian Poets, have been announced. The winners will each earn $1,000, to be presented at a ceremony in Toronto on June 11, ... Read More »
April 21, 2005
Independent Canadian presses are well-represented in the list of this year's nominees for the Arthur Ellis Awards for best Canadian crime writing. The winners will be announced at a dinner on June 9, at Mysteriously ... Read More »
April 21, 2005
The Ferguson family has a stranglehold on the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Will Ferguson collected this year's $10,000 prize for his 2004 book, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw. Last year's winner was Ferguson's ... Read More »
April 21, 2005
Kim McArthur, president and publisher of McArthur & Company, has purchased Canadian rights to The Interpreter of Silences, a third novel from Canadian author Jean McNeil, who lives in London, England. The book is about ... Read More »
April 20, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
Suzanne Brandreth, director of subsidiary rights at The Cooke Agency, has sold Turkish rights to Carolyn Abraham’s Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein’s Brain to Güncel Publishing. Brandreth has also sold Bulgarian rights to ... Read More »
April 20, 2005
Canada may be touted for its multiculturalism, but Groundwood Books founder Patsy Aldana finds its children’s literature disappointingly homogeneous. As part of an ongoing effort to change that, Groundwood’s spring 2005 list includes two English ... Read More »
April 19, 2005
Weblogs – or blogs, for short – began a few years ago as intimate online diaries, places of personalized, often controversial commentary, with collections of links to articles or other sites on the Internet. More ... Read More »
April 19, 2005
Newly appointed Penguin Canada associate editor Helen Reeves has been given the difficult task of turning up cutting edge fiction and non-fiction by young writers. And the Wales native is expected to extend her search ... Read More »
April 19, 2005
Many factors go into determining whether a foreign publisher will buy rights to a Canadian book. Does the author have a recognizable name in that country? Is the subject matter of international interest? And how ... Read More »
April 19, 2005
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