Like a sampler platter at a restaurant, the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers is offering a book of excerpts from the works of more than 15 writers to whet the appetites of readers and booksellers.Available ... Read More »

Yesterday morning, during a ceremony in Ottawa’s Rideau Hall, the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson and the Canada Council for the Arts announced the winners of the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Awards for children’s literature. In ... Read More »

Miriam Toews’s A Complicated Kindness, published by Knopf Canada, has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction, beating Alice Munro who collected her second Giller Prize last Thursday night for Runaway. The two were ... Read More »

In an effort to attract boys to reading, the Ontario Library Association and S&B Books are selling a calendar called The Writers on the Wall which features photos of male young adult fiction authors participating ... Read More »

For the first time in its 36-year history, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal has gone to an anglophone writer: poet and essayist David Solway won the $15,000 prize Monday for his collection of ... Read More »