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Chinua Achebe wins the international Man Booker

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author best known for his 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, has won the Man Booker International Prize. The £60,000 prize, secondary to the main Man Booker prize, was recently established and ... Read More »

June 13, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Industry news

Heard & Overheard (Jack Award Edition)

By Q&Q Staff

Author Michael Winter, getting stuck while describing Jack Award winner Richard Bachmann's A Different Drummer bookstore: "Is there still a cat?" Richard Bachmann, on receiving the award, a hefty, metal jack: "Where's the ball?" On ... Read More »

June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Events

The Jack Awards

By Q&Q Staff

A small family reunion would make the second floor of Toronto's Czehoski restaurant on Queen Street West feel a little cramped. With dozens of bookselling and publishing industry friends and well-wishers present to see A ... Read More »

June 8, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Events, Industry news

British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction

By Q&Q Staff

Noah Richler won the $25,000 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction for his book This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada (McClelland & Stewart). (Photos by Dave Roels.) B.C. Premier ... Read More »

April 20, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Events

Literary role models

By Alison Jones

A new literary award for Australian authors has been announced. The Australian Society of Authors established the Barbara Jefferis Award to honour "the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Event Photos: Ken Harvey's award win, Emily Schultz's launch, and Hot Hot Hot!

By Leigh Anne Williams

Kenneth J. Harvey's novel Inside won the 2006 Winterset Award at Government House in St. John's, Newfoundland on March 29. The International Board on Books for Young People's biennial fundraiser was held at Toronto's Lula ... Read More »

March 30, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Events

Moore, Lansens have eyes on Orange prize

By Leigh Anne Williams

Two Canadian authors have made the longlist for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (the award formerly known as the Orange Prize). Among the 20 contenders are Lori Lansens' The Girls (published by Knopf Canada ... Read More »

March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Orange Prize: there's good news and bad news

By Alison Jones

An article for the Independent discusses the recently announced longlist for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, a prize for women writers, and the overall disappointment that this year's chair, Muriel Gray, feels about the books ... Read More »

March 20, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

More money for GG arts awards

By Alison Jones

As reported by the CBC, the amount of money for the Governor General's Awards in literature, the performing arts, and visual arts is increasing. The Canada Council provides the prize money; in May of last ... Read More »

March 6, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Secrets of the Canadian literary cabal

By Alison Jones

Stephen Henighan, known for his biting, if occasionally conspiracy-minded, commentary on the Canadian literary scene, takes aim at the Scotiabank Giller Prize in this column for Geist. Henighan calls the prize a symptom of the ... Read More »

January 23, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Opinion

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