Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Garageland

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Agent Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency has sold Quebec author Pan Bouyoucas’s first English-language novel to Marc Coté at Cormorant Books. The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea is about a ... Read More »

September 22, 2004

By the book

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Edeet Ravel has sold her first children’s book to Penguin Canada editor Barbara Berson. Pauline de Lammermoor is about a 12-year-old girl who composes a novel with the help of two highly practical aids: Roget’s ... Read More »

September 22, 2004

Ross maps road to victory

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Well-known journalist Val Ross of The Globe and Mail has won the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction for her first book, The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Documents, commissioned by publisher Kathy ... Read More »

September 22, 2004

Sourcing the Booker shortlist

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Neither of the Canadian authors who made the Man Booker Prize longlist have made it to the shortlist, which was announced on Tuesday, Sept. 21. But there is some consolation for Canadian publishers. Three of ... Read More »

September 21, 2004

Mississauga bookseller remembered

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Respected former independent bookseller Jack Kennedy died of natural causes on Sept. 7. He was 92. Born Ildefons Florian Kedziezykowski to Polish parents living in Berlin in 1912, Kennedy came to Canada after the Second ... Read More »

September 20, 2004